Strelka Mag

05.08, Cities

Riders Not Heroes: The Pandemic and Precarity of Food Delivery Workers

A look at the intersection of platform capitalism, gig labor, the refugee crises, and COVID-19.

08.06, The Revenge of the Real

Bubble Problems: An Archeology of Infection and Environmental Control

Lydia Kallipoliti investigates architectures of containment to find new ways to fathom architectural legacies of interiorization, climatic control, and fear of infection.

01.06, The Revenge of the Real

Face as Infrastructure

The human face has always been a technology that exceeds the individual.

28.05, The Revenge of the Real

The Biophilosophy of Epidemiological Models

It’s time to bring biology back into philosophy, Ben Woodard writes.

19.05, The Revenge of the Real

Governing Simulations: Intro to Necroeconomics

Pandemic, climate crisis, and the financialization of death.

15.05, The Revenge of the Real

The Tragic Omissions of Governance by Curve

This year may see a populist backlash against the role of simulations and big data in policy. But the failures of governance by curve in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic must not repeat in the case of climate crisis mitigation.

13.05, The Revenge of the Real

Anatomy of a Trojan Horse

The first global pandemic in the age of social media reveals the role of information in regulating planetary metabolism.

06.05, People

Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi: Pandemic and the Reset of the Global Machine

The 2020 pandemic has reactivated the future as a space of possibility.

30.04, The Revenge of the Real

Face Masks and Politics of Vulnerability

Notes on cultural meanings of clothing and their potential to open up new horizons of political imagination.

29.04, The Revenge of the Real

Quarantinology: Hyperfunctional Logics for the Locked-Down City

What will cities look like in the aftermath of Covid-19?

07.04, The Revenge of the Real

The Revenge of the Real: Open Call

Submit your proposal by April 30.

03.04, The Revenge of the Real

Benjamin Bratton: 18 Lessons of Quarantine Urbanism

Strelka Institute's program director on the world after the COVID-19 pandemic.

14.03, People

Life Under Lockdown: Joseph Grima on Quarantine

Architect and curator Joseph Grima, who is currently under the nationwide lockdown in Italy, shares a few thoughts on quarantine and its consequences.