Sitting Ugly: Nation, Time and the Ghost Aesthetics — On the Danish Design Chair as a Beautiful Symbol of National Comfort
By the end of the registered work hours of the AI, this process has accelerated to a pace that seems mostly like a demonstration of the machines effectiveness, made all the more impressive because it exposes the implicit and simultaneous contrast that this requires no labour intensivity....
Four Ecologies
Increasingly disappointed by Francois Miterrand’s social democratic politics in the first half of the 1980s, and despite his friendship with the former’s minister of culture, Jack Lang, psychiatrist, philosopher, and activist Félix Guattari became a member of the French Green party in 1985. Until hi...
Feathered Data. Birds and Other Aerial Computations
This short essay is part of our continuing interest in ecologies of computation and media where computational culture is read through animal energies and forces. In the context of the ongoing environmental datafication, we are interested in how this can invert into a project on histories and art met...
Futures of Thriving Eelgrass! Locus’ Zostera Marina’s Song of Increase
On Vallisaari island, just off the coast of Helsinki, three colossal flowers drift upon a quiet pond, their pale green and white petals cupping sprinklings of golden pollen. The blossoms sit on a watery surface that mirrors the surrounding forest, the shifting sky and passing clouds composing a shim...
Commoners’ Sense: Ten Theses on Biospheric Realism, Livability, and Artificial Intelligence
We – we commoners, we who have been born and impressed into capitalist modernity without our consent and who must participate in its reproduction and endure the resulting extinction machine from all our diverse and unequal places and contexts – find ourselves in a situation that is both unacceptable...
Planetary Discapacity as Pathologies of Adaptation
The inheritance of modernity consists of injurious and predatory forms of interdependency sustaining human life on earth: agro-industry is depleting the soil and the so-called “lungs of the earth” are burning in California, the Amazon...
For the Want of a Better Word: Hyperlink Thinking
For the want of a better word as a phrase in this text is used as a lens from which I will ask where the search for the better word in design can lead to through the use of hyperlinks as a tool for searching and thinking. For the want of a better word often includes the use of a thesaurus as an...
For the Want of a Better Word: Desire
or the want of a better word as a phrase in this text is used as a lens from which I will ask what the ‘want’ is in design through the questioning of desires. Desire, for the want of a better word, is a feeling that is a physical or mental longing for something; a goodnight kiss or the latest piece...