Sperimentare l’inattualità Scenari per il futuro delle riviste di architettura

During a 2002 interview between Roberto Calasso and Cesare Garboli, the concept of untimeliness emerged as the basis for making the literary magazine a “profoundly creative and original” medium, capable of “influencing its own time” rather than going along with it. Taking on this term as a common thread for reflection, we demonstrate how the concept of untimeliness can be configured as an interpretative model capable of making architecture magazines an instrument of defence against communication mechanisms based on obsessive repetition and sterile content. In these terms, we propose an imperative to configure magazines as places of formation, construction, and transmission of knowledge to counter a contemporary moment that finds the “opposite medium to knowledge” in uncritical communication..