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The Second-Order System

A working guide to Roland Barthes’s myth machine, run on a Tudor tribute to the aviator Carina Massone Negrone.

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Sergio Galanti
Aug 30, 2026
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Somewhere in a July 2026 watch-magazine spread, across four pages, a woman flies a biplane to 12,043 metres and a watch company turns a hundred years old. The spread would like you to feel these as one fact. Learning to watch the seam between them — to see the join being made — is the single most useful thing a reader of this publication can acquire, be…

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