Strelka Mag

21.07, For Planetary Governance

Sterilize Your Tools: Lancelot Hogben’s Vision of Bio-Utopia

Zoologist Lancelot Hogben's lost vision for a social biology draws us to note unacknowledged political biases in science while reminding us that these biases do not undermine the coherence of scientific practice outright.

16.07, For Planetary Governance

Another Kind of Technocracy

Towards a politics beyond fatalism and paranoia.

14.04

Meet the 2021 cohort of The Terraforming

The second cycle of Strelka Institute’s The Terraforming design research program.

22.03, The Revenge of the Real

Cooking New Worlds: From Machinic Architectures to Biome Ecologies

Sarosh Anklesaria proposes a vision for a future based on an ethic of kinship, degrowth, and circular thinking.

11.03, Announcements

Open Call: For Planetary Governance

Submit a proposal by April 10.

11.03, For Planetary Governance

“New World Order”: For Planetary Governance

Benjamin Bratton on the urgency of articulating new forms of collective reason and self-organization.

04.03, Essays

The Ocean’s Many Waters

Daniela Zyman on the critical role of the oceans in respect to planetary survival.

27.11.2020

Fluxopia: On Life in the Metabolic City

Luke Jones explores the double life of urban metabolism.

22.09.2020, Bookshelf

The Terraforming 2021 Reading List

A recommended literature list that touches upon the themes that will be covered in the second year of Strelka's The Terraforming think-tank.

04.09.2020

Strelka Institute Presents The Terraforming 2021

Apply by November 10.

27.08.2020

New Genres of Being for the Mitigation of Ecocide

Terence Sharpe on the need to divert the interests of the global financial system towards green energy.

17.08.2020, The Revenge of the Real

Deep Timescales of Our Most Urgent Crises

Cristina Parreño Alonso on “time lessons” from the coronavirus pandemic.

14.08.2020, The Revenge of the Real

138,462 Carbon Pyramids

Karen Pinkus and Hans Baumann on the climate crisis, Keynesian “pyramid scheme,” and “viable planetarity.”

07.08.2020

Is Automation Making Chinese Society More Resilient?

A look at China’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic through case studies of the automated systems enabling urban and socio-political resilience.

03.08.2020

Design, Modeling & Governance at Planetary Scale: The Terraforming Projects

An overview of the final projects of the first year of Strelka Institute’s The Terraforming design research program.

28.05.2020, The Revenge of the Real

The Biophilosophy of Epidemiological Models

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

15.05.2020, 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.

13.05.2020, 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.