Who is ‘the Settler’? What does this category animate and what does it bely? Despite the vast scholarship on histories of settler colonisation, the complex figure of the settler remains largely taken for granted. This lends itself to a banal decolonial politics that urgently requires critique.

What if instead of an age of automation we are currently living through the dawn of a new era of exploitation?

Codes are written over decades of crisis in the built environment. Therefore, codes are inherently citationary and subject to citationary politics, and all architecture under code is citationary.

Cripping infrastructure refers to an analytical practice that politicizes the relationship between disabled bodyminds and infrastructure, excavating how… infrastructure’s world-making capabilities can be utilized to materialize crip alternatives.

As industrial livestock operations further embed technologies in production, both animals and humans alike face a reality where technology increasingly shapes their existence. How can we understand the impact of these technologies?

A decade after Japan’s 3.11 triple disaster, what kind of social forms and futurities have Fukushima’s treated water enabled or disabled? In what ways has Fukushima’s treated water as infrastructure made and remade material worlds and life worlds?

Today, there is a movement to re-enclose the creative commons, turning creative outputs into financial assets. NFTs imagine a world where having an immutable record of ownership transfers is substitute for the flow and remixing of ideas. It is a static approach to a dynamic world.

Through materializing colonial legacies, monuments create a mnemonic, forming and sustaining a colonial memory, life, and place. Through artistic intervention, Black activists affect a set of alternative place-making and narrative practices, creating a distinctly Black infrastructure.

This essay investigates how energy, infrastructure, and geopolitics create the bitcoin mining zone, an infrastructure space that attracts bitcoin miners and capital to travel across the world in pursuit of cheap electricity and infrastructure. 

There’s only one key concern of this essay, that is how digital infrastructures—from cryptocurrency and blockchain to the emerging K-pop NFT—configure, and are reconfigured by, the politics of digital capitalism.