Epoch, Issue 4

PLEASE NOTE: Magazine cover varies and particular cover cannot not be specified for order, but you can state your cover preference in the order notes at checkout and, if available, we will send that one.

What happens when you think of history differently? Linear history is an illusion. A dated idea based on concepts of progress and production. Epoch aims to place the now in dialogue with the past. It is a publication and platform with an untethered, emotional, active take on the wholeness of civilization.

We are striving for a cross-pollination of disciplines, from anthropology to fashion, science to art, archaeology to music. A space for artists, thinkers, historians, anthropologists, composers, archaeologists, researchers, curators, filmmakers, photographers, architects, librarians, academics and all those working creatively to poetically form new ways of thinking about the world.

In this issue:

This fourth issue—containing a satisfying blend of matte and glossy paper stock—has been created in collaboration with the Archaeological Park of Pompeii and is themed around the historical location itself. Through more than 20 commissioned photographic shoots, 30 interviews and five think pieces, it beautifully documents the UNESCO World Heritage site while exploring Pompeii as a lens through which to observe the past. In doing so, it opens up a dialogue between history and the present.

Leaf through its pages and you’ll find Director General of the park, Gabriel Zuchtrigel, reflect on Pompeii as a birthplace of the contemporary psyche, historian Mary Beard ponder on classicism as a constant yet destabilising ‘other’ and director Adrian Maben recount musical performances that have taken place in Pompeii—from Pink Floyd to Travis Scott. Throughout, a series of photoshoots captures the site’s tiled floors and ruins in a striking new light. They say taking a memento from Pompeii brings bad luck—so pick up a copy of this instead!