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Unknown Unknowns. An Introduction to Mysteries
The past 2 decades have seen an acceleration of the horrendous and the uncontrollable: wars, pandemics, financial crashes, scarcity of energy
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Server Manifesto. Data Center Architecture and the Future of Democracy
Server Manifesto. Data Center Architecture and the Future of Democracy, by writer, architecture critic and guest professor of architecture at the
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“Have we met?” A multispecies approach to the planet
A couple of weeks ago, I went to the press view of the 23rd Triennale Milano International Exhibition. The event features various exhibitions as well
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ISEA 2022: Porn and ecoporn in digital arts
While picking up my badge at ISEA2022 in Barcelona last month, I braced myself for 4 days of interesting but intense academic gravity. My first hours
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“I wanted to speak about the future of quantum computing which, through Bosch, I align with both heaven and hell.”
Libby Heaney is an artist and a quantum physicist. She has been working with IBM’s quantum hardware and Qiskit, an open-source software development
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In the Black Fantastic
In the Black Fantastic, by writer, broadcaster and curator Ekow Eshun. With essays by scholars Kameelah L. Martin and Michelle D. Commander.
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Praying and cursing polluters to death
Mitsutoshi Hanaga Collective of Monks Praying to Kill Owners of Corporations Responsible for Environmental Pollution at the Suzuka River in
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Prepper Paradise. Designing for the end of the world
During the Cold War, everyone knew what the apocalypse would look like: a nuclear war or a nuclear accident. Today, the threats are multiple and
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Lithium lore and relentless extractivism in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
An exhibition at Z33 in Hasselt explores the ecological and humanitarian dimensions of the raw materials necessary to sustain our modern, digital and
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Book review: Body Am I. The New Science of Self-Consciousness
In Body Am I. The New Science of Self-Consciousness, neuroscientist and writer Moheb Costandi examines how the brain generates maps and models of our
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Absolute Beginners: making the basic goods you might need when economies collapse
In 2017, Tom James collaborated with Alex Hartley to build a geodesic dome from reclaimed materials on the grounds of a country mansion. Then they
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Meta.Morf 2022: What does it mean to love nature when many of us doubt that it still exists?
What does it mean to be an ecophile, a true lover of nature in an age when most of us struggle to even recognise nature? When landscapes are
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Embracing ticks and other disgusting creatures
The second talk* that particularly impressed me during the Meta.Morf 2022 – Ecophilia conference organised by TEKS in Trondheim a few weeks ago,
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The Red Thread: making visible the connections between people at opposite ends of supply chains
In early May, from 8 am until 1.30 pm, anyone entering The Complex art space in Dublin could encounter six industrial sewing machines that appeared
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Tiny Mining. Extracting minerals from our own body
While the demand for minerals to produce electronics, clean energy and the infrastructures that support them is skyrocketing, it is getting