Macguffin 14: The Wall

Macguffin 14: The WallFrom the Apartheid wall in Palestine to the digital paywall, from memorial murals in Jamaica to the increasingly tall glass facades of modern office blocks, walls testify to the tumult of history and humanitys ceaseless urge to communicate and to sow division. They force us to reflect on the paradoxes of openness and isolation, of enclosure and exclusion. In a world drowning in borders, barriers and barbed wire fences, this issue of MacGuffin pauses

They entrusted the robots with their planet Earth to restore its environments

The three compilers (of text

critics and scholars discuss the extraordinary social and artistic significance of Palestinian film

Lee illuminates how the interaction between official history

and focused discussions in the existing literature on art archives in Asia

Western science has provided us with a myth of origins in the "Big Bang" theory

Such “fluidity” reflects the affinities and differences among different species

or keep them alive---Ahmed emphasizes

reflects on the limits of serial production and the opportunities connected with the creation of objects as one-offs

and explore the interaction between film and anthropology

and increasing wrinkles

Taro Suzuki