Spot 1: COUNTER ECOLOGIES

Environment
On Coconuts and Earthships —
Interview with Mae-Ling Lokko
Counter Ecologies
Spot 2: REFUSAL, RENEWAL
Stubborn Materialism: Stoppages, Blocks, and Piles
Athleticism
Carolyn Lazard: Long Take
Spot 3: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Stephanie Dinkins: Building Something Now
Heritage Algorithms and Other Letters to the Future
Alison Nguyen’s Andra8 and the Gig Workers of the Data Economy
Spot 4: WHOSE SOUTH?

Jamal Cyrus: The End of My Beginning
The Eyes Were Always on Us
Atlantis, GA
At the largest aquarium in the Western Hemisphere, the alien world of the ocean has corporate sponsors.
Spot 5: THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

St. Louis: Navigating the Brick City
The urban landscape can be seen as a transcription of a city’s history. In St. Louis, the construction and destruction of brick buildings reveal a racialized history of segregation and inequality.
Porous Cosmopolis: Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman
Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman’s many co-extensive projects merge activist praxis, intellectual and skill exchange, horizontalist planning, and creative production to examine and change the way that borders, and the communities around them, are conceived of and function.
Amitav Ghosh: The Great Derangement
French philosopher Jean-Pierre Dupuy writes: “If we destroy nature is it because we hate nature? Of course not—we merely hate one another.”
He may well be right.
Architectural Camouflage and the Class Dynamics of Housing
Gabriel Cira reveals how confounding façades can also reinforce the dominant narrative by masking economic differences to favor a mirage of homogeneity. Photos by Pat Falco.
Spot 6: ENVIRONMENTS

I Will Not Be Purified
Anyone who has ever been life-threateningly ill will know the desperation it breeds. You’ll try anything. You’ll do anything. And when treatments fail, and doctors—shockingly unskilled in empathy—shrug and suggest this means you will die, you start looking anywhere for help.
Indicting the Poisonous Imaginary—Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal
In 2021 D’Souza and Staal came together to stage the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC) at Framer Framed in Amsterdam. Described as “a more-than-human tribunal to prosecute intergenerational climate crimes” committed by Unilever, ING, Airbus, and the Dutch state, the court drew from D’Souza’s book What’s Wrong With Rights? Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations.
The Energy Paradox
Japanese artists’ and cultural workers’ strategies for response to the Fukushima disaster.
Spot 7: FROM THE ARCHIVES

Against Cultural Amnesia
Interview: David Hammons
“I can’t stand art actually. I’ve never, ever liked art, ever.”
Cultural Militancy: New Orleans Art After Katrina
Eric Bookhardt reports on the New Orleans art scene after Katrina, and discusses its resurgent militancy.
The Museum Union Wave
No one could remember a time when wages for work in the arts met the cost of living in an American city.