YOU CAN SEE APARTHEID FROM SPACE / Residual Governance – How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures
TO FIND JOHANNESBURG and Soweto from space, look for a string of orange and yellow polygons. The largest ones tend to have all straight sides, though a few combine straight and curvy edges. Zoom in, and notice a boulevard bisecting the city, running west to east for over 8 kilometers. Continuing you...
[FIFA]
[FIFA] is a film with an investigative approach, critically examining the connection between the commercial language of football and the actions of the president and board members of the FIFA organisation, in the specific corruption case of 2015. The individual skills of...
Hvad laver en økonom i Designrådet?
Hvad laver en økonom i Designrådet? Det spørgsmål var udgangspunktet for en uformel samtale med tidligere departementschef i Erhvervsministeriet Jørgen Rosted, som fandt sted i efteråret 2020 i Christianshavns Beboerhus. Det blev en samtale, som udfoldede dansk designhistorie fra 1990’erne og......
The Myth of “Democratic Design” and Why the Concept Never Should Be Used Again
There has been an inflation of the concept of ‘democracy’. City-planning, public talks, town squares, and design in general, are today termed ‘democratic’. It is not surprising, who does not want to be democratic? But as Jeff Werner, professor of art history, writes in the book Postdemokratisk...
The Remote Sensation of Disintegration
In the coastal wetlands of the US state of Louisiana, the fossil fuel industry maintains the spatial, environmental, and economic logics and landscapes of colonialism and slavery. There, two hundred of the nation’s most polluting petrochemical plants and refineries occupy the footprints of fallow sl...
Notes on Degrowth and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
In the April 2022 issue of Monthly Review, degrowth scholars laid out a vision for an ecosocialist degrowth. They reasoned that, fundamentally, degrowth “requires the social appropriation of the main means of (re)production and a democratic, participatory, ecological planning.”(1) That, only when “p...
The Silence of Carpets
Carpets and art share a long and interwoven past. Historically there was no distinction between the two. Carpets have been a legitimate medium for both art and artistic expression, yet something changed in the western world during early modernity. The Danish artist and weaver Anna Thommesen was well...
Look Up: Climate Change Is Not a Crisis, It’s a Beating
We are ruining the planet to such an extent that it prompted scientists to proclaim the start of a new geological period. The Anthropocene, they called it, emphasising the influence of humanity on the environment. “Influence” is perhaps too soft a term to describe what George Monbiot calls a “full s...