“The 20th century brought about a hope of change, but now the dream has faded away and we find ourselves living in a vacuum that next generations have to fill in with new contents,” thundered the late lamented Theo Angelopoulos: we wouldn’t stake our lives on his anathema, but as for the contents, DROME did its part with 220 pages filled to the brim – for the first time in eight years in fact the magazine is out with so many “leaves” to turn -, because the urgency to dwell on the Catastrophe is becoming inevitable. Between the fear for our extinction and its denial, as the first step of the five stages of grief, the end of the world represents an unfettered realm, the possibility of a new start: that’s how DROME pictured it in its brand new 20th issue.