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Back Water: What should be classified as “wilderness” in a post-industrial...
Meadownlands, an ecosystem of wetlands, a few miles to the west of New York City, used to be associated with vast and often unregulated landfills, polluting industries and other unbridled environmental...
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The Clearing. How to live together once sea levels rise and global economy...
Mainstream media like to tell us how people are getting ready for a post-collapse future. Some buy properties in New Zealand, some go all bunker bliss, others believe that all they should do is escape...
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Race After Technology. Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Race After Technology. Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code, by Ruha Benjamin, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. Publisher Polity writes: From everyday apps to...
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Walled Unwalled. The politics and violence of acoustics
Lawrence Abu Hamdan is an artist and a “private ear”, a kind of counter-state actor whose practice consists in trying to give a space and meaning to different types of listening. Operating both in...
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Future farming. How migrants can help Italian cuisine adjust to climate...
Artist and cultural anthropologist Leone Contini has been collecting seeds for over 10 years. Preferably seeds that were given to him by members of the foreign communities who have migrated to Italy in...
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Upcoming: Art & Animals in the Age of CRISPR, Cloning and Cellular Agriculture
Public announcement! In July, I’ll be giving online classes on the theme of Art & Animals in the Age of CRISPR, Cloning and Cellular Agriculture with the School of Machines, Making &...
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Africa State of Mind. Contemporary Photography Reimagines a Continent
Africa State of Mind. Contemporary Photography Reimagines a Continent, by writer, curator, journalist and broadcaster Ekow Eshun. Description by publisher Thames & Hudson: Africa State of Mind...
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REAL_ITALY. A country under the unflinching gaze of its artists
Cultural space are slowly reopening to the public here in Italy and I’m taking advantage of the very very quiet touristic season to drag my collection of face masks around art cities. First stop: Rome...
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Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium
Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium by Lucy Jane Santos. Publisher Icon Books writes: Of all the radioactive elements discovered at the end of the 19th century, it was radium that became the...
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Tax Havens: Normalized Grand Theft
I finally found the time to catch up with the recordings of the MoneyLab conference weekly stream of panels, conversations and presentations. MoneyLab, an event usually held in Amsterdam, gives the...
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Value extraction and the workforce of the cryptocene
Last week, i published my notes from Tax Havens: Normalized Grand Theft, the sixth episode of the MoneyLab online conference organized by Aksioma in collaboration with Kino Šiška and the Institute of...
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The Contamination of the Earth. A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age
The Contamination of the Earth. A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age, by historians Francois Jarrige and Thomas Le Roux. Description by MIT Press: The authors describe how, from 1750 onward,...
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Sugar: A Cosmology of Whiteness
We’ve been processing, refining and commercialising it for hundreds of years. We’ve turned it into a key actor of our nutrition, binged on it and used taxes to reduce its consumption. But what if sugar...
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Cultures of Violence. Visual Arts and Political Violence
Cultures of Violence. Visual Arts and Political Violence, by Professor of political philosophy Ruth Kinna and Senior Lecturer in visual and material culture Gillian Whiteley. Publisher Routledge...
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The Bioremediating Missile
Jos Volkers hand-crafted a fourteen meter long replica of a V-2 rocket, the WWII long-range guided ballistic missile developed by the Germans to attack Allied cities as retaliation for the Allied...
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American Zealots. Inside Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism
American Zealots. Inside Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism, by Arie Perliger, professor and director of the graduate program in security studies at the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at the...
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Preppers and the YOYO (You’re on your own) culture
Preppers (aka survivalists, although the two words identify slightly different groups) are training, stockpiling and gearing up for the catastrophe that will lead to the collapse of society or make...
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The Work of Time: In a world that values speed and productivity, is there any...
In 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that technological progress would free us from long hours of labour. We would be working 15-hour weeks and, our material needs satisfied, we’d spend the...
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The Photograph as Contemporary Art
The Photograph as Contemporary Art (new edition), by author and curator Charlotte Cotton. Publisher Thames & Hudson write: A new edition of the definitive title for students and teachers in the...
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The Sustainable Darkroom Project
Who knew that a printed photograph could be so damaging to the environment? Hannah Fletcher does. A photographic artist and member of the London Alternative Photography Collective, Fletcher is...
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