Mayday, Issue Five

As we face down a constant stream of information, the pressure to decide what to believe or what to care about has radicalised the seemingly simple act of choosing. If you think about it like this, anything can be considered radical. In this fourth issue, we dive into the hyper-polarisation of our times. As we continue to make our choices, we are forced into camps that disregard any shards of truth that might lie within other positions. What’s happened to original thought and compromise?

In Issue Four, we explore radical ideas, technologies and viewpoints in hopes of understanding. We can’t shy away from views or ideas that seem extreme, only by virtue of being different than our own. So we face the future head-on, take stock and work our way forward. The journey takes us from right-wing extremism to Kundalini yoga, and from gene drives to historical eccentrics. Maybe we can find some answers somewhere in between.

In this issue:

A journey into the biodiverse Amazon Basin with Thomas Lovejoy, researcher and founder of the renowned Forest Fragments project — Aaron Bastani’s opinion on the current economic system’s role in the climate crisis — Feature with Danish artist group SUPERFLEX on what it takes to face cultural challenges — A deep dive into the most natural and unnatural tendencies of the colour green — Utilising art to think ecologically with curator of General Ecology at the Serpentine Galleries, Lucia Pietroiusti — Original fiction shorts  — Photo series examining the ebb and flow of our relationship to the sea  — the Mayday Index and much more.