Climate communication is seemingly stuck in a double bind. The problem of global warming requires inherently trans-scalar modes of engagement, encompassing times and spaces that exceed local frames of experience and meaning. Climate media must therefore negotiate representational extremes that risk overwhelming their audience with the immensity of…[Read more]

René Descartes posits a curious anxiety his Second Meditation that an otherwise convincing form might conceal a post-human robotic entity. Machinic and animalian bodies, in his dualistic perspective, were seen to exist on a lesser order than the soul of man. Yet, as Descartes himself seems to wonder, the maintenance…[Read more]

Urban Agriculture is increasingly forwarded as a tool for social and ecological renewal in the post-industrial city. However, much of the enthusiasm (and increasingly, scholarly analysis) of this phenomena focuses on its civic role rather than its tangible impacts on urban food systems. This suggests that there is a great deal of ideological…[Read more]

Microsoft’s transition to being both a cloud company and a carbon neutral company occurred at the same time and with common structuring logics. Cloud computing, carbon offsetting, and renewable energy provisioning share place-agnostic structures and practices. This article examines these trends together, analyzing how global forms of mediation a…[Read more]

A description of the epistemological problems opened by new materialist ontologies, explored through a phenomenological discussion of the Microsoft Kinect and Teoma Naccarato, John MacCallum, and Adrian Freed’s performance piece, X (2013).

Art history has long struggled to find a method to account for the diverse expressions of queer desire across the heterogeneous landscape of history. While there has been a surge of research on the lives, artworks, and
audiences of artists that trouble the heterosexual norm, the wider impact of this scholarship is often limited to singular…[Read more]