The State Vol II: Speculative Geographies

FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:

Jansen Aui, Nick Roberts and Henry Stephens—Syndromes and a Sentry
Against the rugged sublime of New Zealand’s topography, a corpus of networked lighthouses work to preserve their environments

Nick Axel—Metric | Space
A mysterious City-corporation, a new five year plan, a manifesto for an architectural future. Why isn’t it working?

Khairani Barokka—Indonesia’s Double Mountain
Twin peaks, a sun, and a winding road, and what they reveal about Indonesian arts education

Greg Barton—Marja || Marja
The Afghan agricultural belt is bifurcated by a man-made machine and ordered its social algorithms

M.F. Benigno—Dériving KTM
Mapping the Nepali capital through the dérive, an artisanal curd maker, midnight hankerings for dried peas and a glove of Indian whiskey, Room 53.

Frances Bodomo—The House at Haatso
A family home in Accra becomes a locus to interrogate distance, space, time, and belonging

DEMILIT—They Came to the Desert and were Consumed by a Flickering Fortress
A DARPA zoo, epidermal biodomes, a towering grey impasse in the gloaming, a militarised Disneyland

Daniel Fernández Pascual—Displaced Soils
Soils from contested sites along the Spanish coastline speak to the real estate crisis, extra-territorialisation, and salinity as a judiciary arbitor

Bradley L. Garrett—Edgework: Getting Close, Getting Cut, Getting Out
Placehacking, gonzo urbanism, and teetering on the aerial edges of pre-Olympics London

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi—A New City for a New Man
Brasilia, Sao Paulo, utopian rituals of modernity and Brasilidade, and a young boy’s coming into moral sentience

Karen Gregory—Geography of Intimacy
A psychogeographic passage through three New Yorks, and an ethnography of its psychic storefronts

Sarah Handelman—Faded Maps, Fleeting Histories
Red carpets, social media, passworded memories and digital ephemera

John Krauss—Let’s Map!
Thermal cartography exploring the relations between speculation, real estate, and the rise and fall of music venues in NYC

Justin Pickard—Chalice Flag, Hydroelectric Sublime
An allohistorical diptych: Messianic Christianity, mine-ready steam pumps, and an early modern Internet-of-lighthouses, meet Arab nationalism, rigid-hull airships, and the creeping authoritarianism of the rentier state

Adam Rothstein—New Politic
Dissecting the future-present, post-tarot cards, and a non-corporeal resource-collecting board game


Please note: The edition comes with an outer case and these boxes are not in perfect condition.