Fog catchers (atrapanieblas) are fairly simple constructions. They consist of large plastic or nylon nets stretched between two vertically positioned poles, perpendicular to

the direction of the incoming, airborne extension of the ocean, fog. As coastal winds push ground touching clouds toward the net, the air’s capacity to hold water [...]

There is a growing consensus that India is going through a waste crisis, and this awareness unfolds parallel to an increasing awareness of the beyond-human time it takes for

plastics to disappear. It is striking that narratives of problems with waste, across different genres, often return to the same figures and figures of speech, the [...]

Anticipating the failure of digital devices has become part of the fabric of everyday life in the digital world. With their fragile components and ever-shortening lifespans,

digital technologies increasingly require their users to take preparatory action if they want to avoid losing their digital photos, files and other precious data [...]

We were sat upstairs in a favourite hot-pot restaurant in old Taipei, nestled in between a deep red temple and a scooter repair shop, behind a metro station. Between mouthfuls

I was trying to conduct an informal interview with Brother Huang, Sister Xie and their fourteen-year old daughter Mei-lin. [...]

The fragility of our infrastructures and modes of living seldom become as ubiquitously palpable as they have with the current COVID-19 pandemic. The spread of the corona virus

has fundamentally challenged taken-for-granted life rhythms, mobility patterns and forms of sociality, albeit with unevenly distributed consequences still impossible [...]

The global pandemic has brought death uncomfortably close for many of us. The way our governments, economists, scientists, and fellow citizens have reacted and tried to govern

over life to keep death at bay over the past few months has emphasized how, as societies and as individuals, we relate to death and life.  As the months went by, [...]

Apparently Banksy’s anonymity and surreptitious art practice is costing him…big time. “Banksy has chosen to remain anonymous and, for the most part, to paint graffiti

on other people’s property without their permission, rather than to paint it on canvases or his own property,” the panel said. [...]

but I will remain as the real Emily; the Emily who owns the high-art Emily, and the one who wrote this essay, too. She will continue to carve out control where she can find

it. [...]

In the early summer of 2020 I submitted what I presumed was a final round of extremely minor revisions to an article that I’d been working on in one way or another since

2014. The article compares the ways in which contemporary private equity financiers and Inka accounting specialists manage labor, suggesting that the study of finance [...]