Dust #29 2026 - Overload editorial design Alain de Botton in conversation

Alain de Botton in conversation with Martina Mondadori on love and modern relationships

What a Mushroom Lives For pushes today’s mushroom renaissance in compelling new directions

the eleventh

which was first exhibited in 2022 as part of the exhibition “Experimental Strategies in Art + Music” at the Moody Center for the Arts

with selections of his poetry that are long out of print

Dust #29 2026 - Overload editorial design Alain de Botton in conversationAs screens, algorithms, and metrics have taken on the task of organising realitymaking it difficult to distinguish visibility from value, immediacy from contextevery image around us now competes with every other image, leaving us with an uncomfortable question: what are we supposed to be as an independent magazine? And who are we accountable to? Brands? Algorithms? Audiences trained to scroll? What are we being asked to become? A cultural platform? A