Energy Structures
Eschatology on the Internet: The Nocilla Trilogy
In 2010 scientists from Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan, conducted an experiment with oat flakes, arranged to mimic the cities...
Tobias Wallisser: Expo 2020, LAVA, and the Future
Caia Hagel speaks with Tobias Wallisser, of the architectural collective LAVA, about plans for the Germany Pavilion at Expo 2020.
Daniel Rich: Energy Structures
WikiLeaks, Edward Snowden, instances of hacking, digital warfare, software glitches at Nasdaq, the role of social media in recent revolutions and wars in the Middle East, and the fragility of the systems on which we depend.
Lucia Berlin: Evening in Paradise and Welcome Home
Schoolteacher, dressmaker, cleaning woman, ER clerk, switchboard operator, oral historian: these were a few of the jobs that occupied Lucia...
Chernobyl
“What is the cost of lies?” HBO’s miniseries Chernobyl opens with this dark rumination of dying Soviet chemist Valery Legasav’s....
A Brief History of Power
Contributing editor Stephanie Bailey traces the lines of electrification to political power via Chilean artist Iván Navarro and the 38th EVA International in Ireland.
The Energy Paradox
Japanese artists’ and cultural workers’ strategies for response to the Fukushima disaster.
Zina Saro-Wiwa
British–Nigerian video artist and filmmaker Zina Saro-Wiwa depicts women as wandering states. Sensing a path through emotional matter, the artist...
Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It
In a political landscape where truth can feel fluid at best and arbitrary at worst, it seems apt that archival...