Air Travels • Shruti Iyer
It's easy to think of silicosis as a disease of the past. But even today it is one of the great workplace killers, cutting sharply along class lines.
Issue issue-03
AIRBORNE
In Issue 3, the contributors take on the contradictions of the skies—between global causes and local effects; between invisible sources of very visible harms; between complex systems and the necessity of planning; between a space teeming with life and with the noise of digital infrastructures—to ask how we might see the air around us more clearly.
Contributors
- Shruti Iyer
- Zsuzsanna Ihar
- Drew Pendergrass
- Mae Losasso
- Adrienne Buller
- David Wallace-Wells
- Natasha Heenan
- Vera Huwe
- Cecilia Rikap
- Ségolène Ragu
- Amélie David
- Adam Almeida
- Adrienne Buller
- John Merrick
Articles
Rock Dove Recon • Zsuzsanna Ihar
On the Scottish island of Scolpaig, a local fight against the construction of a spaceport captures a wider resistance to capital's occupation of the land and air.
• 14 min read
Chaos in the Air • Drew Pendergrass
Against Friedrich Hayek’s market mysticism, complexity science points toward the need for collective intelligence and planning.
• 17 min read
Economies of Breath • Mae Losasso
On the invention of the environment and the slow violence of the respiratory economy.
• 13 min read
A Familiar Disaster • Adrienne Buller, David Wallace-Wells
A conversation on the state of the climate movement, the paralysis of the Democratic party and the meaning of catastrophe.
• 26 min read
Producing the Climate • Natasha Heenan
To produce a new climate in the ruins of the old, for ourselves and for the generations that will follow, we need a politics of climate repair.
• 15 min read
Delayed Arrival • Vera Huwe
The aviation industry was built through war and state power—around politics, in other words. Building something else will be political, too.
• 14 min read
Talking About the Weather • Cecilia Rikap
Through its ownership of cloud-computing services, Big Tech is setting the terms for how we understand the climate crisis—and how we respond.
• 12 min read
A Troubled Blue Sky • Ségolène Ragu, Amélie David
In Beirut, financial turmoil and military assualt have made access to energy uneven, and left the air thick with diesel. Now, residents are building their own clean energy future.
• 12 min read
Toxic Soup • Adam Almeida
As logistics, waste and gentrification converge in the South Bronx, communities have paid the price. Now, residents are fighting back, and modelling a different kind of city.
• 13 min read
All That Is Solid • Adrienne Buller, John Merrick
Introducing Issue #3: AIRBORNE