Pharmakon - Teju Cole communication design pop-culture moments

pop-culture moments

Roland Barthes

its practical function as design is strengthened

denigrating the other artists around him

Hence ‘88 Stones’

Pharmakon - Teju Cole communication design pop-culture momentsBringing together a sequence of subtle and disquieting photographs with a dozen compact short stories, Pharmakon is a surprising new work from the singular mind of Teju Cole. The photographs were taken across the globe and extend the oblique point of view he developed in Fernweh (2020). Interspersed among the images are texts that emerge like intimate signals from our age of crisis, mining further the exquisite linguistic control that characterizes