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Issue #13

The Generative Future

Liquid Media, Information Overload, and the End of Fixed Reality.

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The Posing Ghosts

A haunted archive of erotic photographs featuring underage women raises uncomfortable questions about media history, ethics, and power.

Mette Kierstein

The Media & Morphospace of History

For most of human history we believed that everything that could happen, had already happened – ad infinitum. Media technologies would change that.

Thomas Moynihan

The Currency for a Greener Future?

We speak to Delton Chen, the civil engineer and geo-hydrologist who first thought of the carbon coin.

Caroline Zielinski

Monetary Realism… Is There No Alternative?

A Q&A with the artist Austin Houldsworth, who decided to make it his project to reimagine that which burdens so many creatives: money.

August Leo Liljenberg

Too Much Information

New research suggests our critical thinking skills have become a casualty in the AI boom. What to do when more becomes less?

Casper Skovgaard Petersen

Caught Between Ones and Zeroes

Will the current cryptographic systems underpinning the financial world be able to weather the upcoming quantum storm?