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Natasha Stagg’s Sleeveless by Eugenie Dalland

https://bombmagazine.org/articles/natasha-staggs-sleeveless/

If one were to blend all of the entries that make up Natasha Stagg’s new book, Sleeveless, into one massive story, the result might look similar to the disembodied future William Gibson imagined in his 1984 masterpiece, Neuromancer. Extreme body modification, the transmutation between bodies and machines, corporate power superseding that of the government, and the re-envisioning of the self in a digital globalized landscape are just a few phenomena both books investigate. Sleeveless, which gathers Stagg’s essays, stories, and profiles on art and fashion written over the past eight years, speaks to the new spaces and meanings created by the Internet, where the displacement of reality through advertising, the falseness of branding, and the rapid, almost biomorphic mutation of consumerism can often feel like science fiction. The book is framed as “a personal account of a very strange time, and an attempt to identify the invisible strings pulling us in directions we never thought possible.”