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Spike #86 – Salad Days – is out now!

By Spike Editorial Team

23 January 2026

Forget all the talk about a generational crisis; young people are modeling how to live in our very confused times – and producing some of the most interesting forms we’ve ever seen.

This winter, we’re turning to the wild season of youth. GET YOUR COPY!

Featuring a guide to the Slopgeneration by Kieran Press-Reynolds; Travis Diehl on being young at art on Instagram; Aodhan Madden on how the art world does and undoes dynasty; actress Ivy Wolk deromanticizes dying young; artist portraits of couture-sculptor Tenant of Culture (by Lydia Eliza Trail), Turner Prize-nominated photographer Rene Matić (by Sebastjan Brank), e-waste transubstantiator Brian Oakes (by Ruby Justice Thelot), and Austrian painter Lukas Posch (by Kari Rittenbach); Bernadette Corporation’s Bernadette Van-Huy picks apart culture’s youth fixation; novelist Olivia Kan-Sperling on the ecstatic weirdness of teenage prose; journalist Richard Hames on the promise of Zoomer activism; columnist Adina Glickstein on Peter Thiel’s industrialization of youthful risk-taking; chef Jago Rackham warns of the risks of being precocious; a Postcard from charter-city Próspera by Sam Venis; curator Gloria Hasnay on a perfect Los Angeles metaphor by artist Julie Becker; Hans-Jürgen Hafner on Chris Reinicke’s 1967 invention of Interaction art; video artist Valentina Triet on five works in her inspirational orbit; image contributions by Ibrahim Meïté Sikely, Cosima zu Knyphausen, Mira Mann, Ruoru Mou, and Valentina Vaccarella; and Tea Hačić-Vlahović’s never-miss back-page column: “You shouldn’t be fun at twenty-one. You should be tortured.” GET YOUR COPY!

Spike #86 – Content
Spike #86 – Editorial
Spike #86 – Essay (Press-Reynolds)
Spike #86 – Nepo Babies
Spike #86 – Essay (Diehl)
Spike #86 – Question (Wolk)
Spike #86 – Portrait (Matić)
Spike #86 – Politics
Spike #86 – Gesellschaft am Ende

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