Using the medium of game design, artist and filmmaker Lawrence Lek explores the nature of intelligence and ethics of the non-human.

Post-colonial theory, being a well-established field in the West, drops a deep shadow on what one could define as post-Soviet space. Is it possible to apply post-colonial and decolonial approaches to Russian colonialism?

Machine-machine vision—a parallel visual culture developed by machines, for machines—is testing the boundaries of what we consider thought.

Behind the beauty and crudeness of automated landscapes, this report from the Netherlands reveals that human bodies are not absent at all in these centers of production, but instead adopt the uptime rhythm of automation.

Moving beyond the limits of assemblage theory, thinking of the Anthropocene as a system that can be observed and studied, can help us discover new political horizons—concrete solutions to the challenges of our time.

As we question our position as humans in a more-than-human world, we need to revise our escapist fantasies of colonizing other planets.

Social media is turning the built environment into an attraction, populated not by citizens but by users.

There is a lot to explore in the subversive and empowering function that space programs could play in the future of urban life.

How the financialization of home ownership has changed the individual’s relationship with the domestic interior.

How the combination of domesticated fire, the data center, and artificial intelligence is reshaping our communities, opening them up to a stealthier and more pervasive form of the Smart City.

The proliferation of dating apps and the incursion of the logic of capital into our private lives have killed sexual desire. Will Tinder leave our cities barren?

Illustrating a radically new model of collective identity formed by the platform economy, researcher Curtis Roth examines how the notion of the self is evolving in the age of surveillance capitalism.

As the boundary between the natural and the automated dissolves, the vast logistics infrastructures underpinning our economies point the way to new models of the sublime.

Since the early days of the Soviet Union, Russian architects were fascinated by technology’s transformative potential. Today, their utopian thinking is fuelling private profits.

In allowing Amazon to invent our future, we have lost sovereignty over our cities, our regions and our bodies. The commerce giant’s invisible logistics chains leave an imprint on everything they touch.

Artist Tivon Rice navigates the uncanny divide between human and machine cognition and explores the ghosts hiding in the cracks of urban spaces.

How can Tarkovsky's Stalker and the aesthetics of the post-industrial help us speculate about a world in which the human condition is increasingly circumscribed?

Patricia Reed on how to gain traction and political mobility in the wake of the Anthropocene.