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  • Vera Egbers, Christa Kamleithner, Özge…

    Architectures of Colonialism

  • Anna-Maria Meister, Teresa Fankhänel,…

    Are You a Model? On an Architectural Medium of Spatial…

  • Gilbert Simondon, Emmanuel Alloa (Hg.)

    Imagination und Invention

  • Philipp Schönthaler

    Wie rationale Maschinen romantisch wurden

  • Artemy Magun

    The Temptation of Non-Being: Negativity in Aesthetics

  • Nicolas Uphaus

    Frei. Selbstständig arbeiten als Designer (2. überarb.…

  • Anne Querrien, Brigitta Kuster (Hg.)

    Maschinen | Gefüge | Karten

  • Sabine Nuss

    Wessen Freiheit, welche Gleichheit? Das Versprechen einer…

  • Legacy Russell

    Black Meme. A History of The Images That Make Us

  • Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Hal Foster

    Exit Interview. Benjamin Buchloh in conversation with Hal…

  • Gabriel Catren

    Pleromatica, or Elsinore's Trance

  • You Can Sit With Us

    You Can Sit With Us - 24/7

  • Rainald Goetz

    wrong

  • Johann Braun

    Stadt von Rechts. Über Brennpunkte und Ordnungsversuche

  • Domitilla Dardi

    Playgrounding. The playground as a symbolic form of society…

  • Paolo Pileri, Christina Renzoni, Paola…

    Piazze Scolastiche / School squares. Reinventing the…

  • e-flux

    e-flux Index 1

  • Kim Förster

    Building Institution. The Institute for Architecture and…

  • Michael Marder

    The Phoenix Complex. A Philosophy of Nature

  • Florian Heilmeyer, Sandra Hofmeister

    Umbau Architektur in Flandern. Architecture of…

  • Andrea Baier, Christa Müller, Karin…

    Unterwegs in die Stadt der Zukunft. Urbane Gärten als Orte…

  • Paul Wood (ed.)

    Biting the Hand. Traces of Resistance in the Art &…

  • Sezgin Boynik, Taneli Viitahuhta (eds.)

    Free Jazz Communism.

  • Slavoj Žižek, Rastko Močnik, Zoja Skušek

    Punk Suprematism. Theoretical Writings on Punk, Nation,…

  • Naomi Keena, Avi Friedman

    Sustainable Housing in a Circular Economy

  • Karel Teige

    The Marketplace of Art. 2 Volumes

  • Lodown Magazine

    Lodown Magazine: Sound

  • Lukas Feireiss (ed.)

    Parasite 2.0: Collective Keywords

  • Riccardo Badano, Tomas Percival, Susan…

    Militant Media. Centre for Research Architecture 2

  • Kyle Booten, D. Graham Burnett, Brian…

    The Virtual Sentence: A Book of Exercises

  • Exhibition Politics. Die documenta und die DDR

  • Karsten Krampitz

    Pogrom im Scheunenviertel. Antisemitismus in der Weimarer…

  • Thomas Irmer

    René Pollesch – Arbeit. Brecht. Cinema. Interviews und…

  • Işil Eğrikavuk

    Global Protests Through Art. collaboration, co-creation,…

  • Felix Sommer, SB5ÜNF

    Beton & Nicht Beton

  • Julia Schulz-Dornburg

    The Complete Guide to Combat City

  • Dorothee Albrecht

    Assemblages of the Future

  • Sam Ashby (ed.)

    Little Joe: A book about queers and cinema, mostly

  • Jürg Graser, Astrid Staufer, Christian…

    Architektur Klima Atlas. Klimabewusst entwerfen in…

  • Charlotte Malterre-Barthes

    On Architecture and Greenwashing. The Political Economy of…

  • Judith Hopf

    Judith Hopf. Énergies

  • Marcus Steinweg, Sonja Dierks

    Kafka

  • Onur Erdur

    Schule des Südens. Die kolonialen Wurzeln der französischen…

  • Michael Marder, Giovanbattista Tusa (…

    Contemporanea. A Glossary for the Twenty-First Century

  • dérive

    dérive N° 95, Sampler (Apr-Jun 2024). Zeitschrift für…

  • Vladimir Guculak, Paul Bourel

    Sh*tscapes. 100 Mistakes in Landscape Architecture

  • Fulya İLBEY

    CONSTRUCTIVE MANIPULATIONS™ FOR STRATEGIC RESILIENCE

  • Alan Smart, Jack Henrie Fisher (ed.)

    Counter-Signals 5. Systems and their Discontents

  • Silke Kapp, Mariana Moura (ed.)

    Sérgio Ferro. Architecture from Below. An Anthology

  • Daniel Loick

    Die Überlegenheit der Unterlegenen. Eine Theorie der…

  • Víctor Aguado, Ramón del Buey, Brandon…

    Party Studies Vol. 2. Underground Clubs, Parallel…

  • Nina Dragičević

    Auditory Poverty and its Discontents – An Essay

  • Iracema Dulley, Özgün Eylül İşcen (eds)

    Displacing Theory through the Global South

  • Karoline Mayer, Katharina Ritter,…

    Über Tourismus

  • Ubani. Tbilisi cityscape research center

    Hollow. A Map of Tbilisi

  • Bernd Stiegler

    Bildpolitiken der Identität. Von Porträtfotografie bis zu…

  • Chris Kraus

    Ehrgeiz, Demut, Glück. Texte zu Kunst und Freundschaft

  • Laboratory EAST

    Studies on Assemblies: Mass Made Units.

  • Tom Holert

    „ca. 1972” Gewalt – Umwelt – Identität – Methode

  • Nadejda Bartels (Hg.)

    Alvar Aalto in Deutschland: Gezeichnete Moderne / Alvar…

  • Tchoban Foundation

    Sauerbruch Hutton. Drawing in Space

  • Derek McCormack

    Judy Blame's Obituary. Writings on Fashion and Death

  • Corinne Cath

    Eaten by the Internet

  • Nike

    After All, there is No Finish Line

  • ECCHR

    Beyond Limitations. Wolfgang Kaleck, Tomas Saraceno

  • ECCHR

    Challenging Corporate Power. Gearoid O Cuinn, Miriam Saage-…

  • Jeanne Gang

    The Art of Architectural Grafting. Usefulness and Desire in…

  • Jochen Eisenbrand

    Transform! Designing the Future of Energy

  • Adam Gibbons, Eva Wilson

    Abbas Zahedi in conversation with Eva Wilson "" #7

  • Kevin Yuen Kit Lo

    Design Against Design. Cause and consequence of a…

  • Timon Beyes

    Organizing Color. Toward a Chromatics of the Social

  • Eric Drott

    Streaming Music, Streaming Capital

  • Francois Laruelle

    Phenomenon & Difference. Essay on the Ontology of…

  • Mohammad Salemy (ed.)

    Model Is the Message. Incredible Machines Conference 2022

  • Joshua Comaroff, Ong Ker-Shing

    Horror in Architecture. The Reanimated Edition

  • Armen Avanessian, Daniel Falb

    Planeten Denken. Hyper-Antizipation und Biografische…

  • Achim Szepanski

    Die Ekstase der Spekulation. Kapitalismus im Zeitalter der…

  • Arch+ Zeitschrift für Architektur und…

    Arch+ 254. Klaus Heinrich - Dahlemer Vorlesungen: Giovanni…

  • Florian Reischauer

    Pieces of Berlin 2019-2023

  • Tim Carpenter

    To Photograph is to Learn How to Die

  • Oxana Timofeeva

    Solarpolitik. Ein philosophischer Essay über die Sonne,…

  • Hans-Christian Dany

    Schuld war mein Hobby. Bilanz einer Familie

  • Andreas Weber

    Indigenialität

  • Achim Szepanski, Force Inc. / Mille…

    In the Delirium of the Simulation: Baudrillard Revisited by…

  • Never Sleep (Ed.)

    Archivio #1 - Records Store Ads & Paper Ephemera From…

  • Diedrich Diederichsen

    Das 21. Jahrhundert. Essays

  • Redaktion Protocol

    Protocol 14. Nonkonforme Architekturpraxis

  • Markus Miessen (Ed.)

    Agonistic Assemblies. On the Spatial Politics of…

  • Christoph Ramisch (Ed)

    Daidalos Nr 22-23

  • Hella Gerlach

    Gelenkstellen - Loose Joints

  • Grant H. Kester

    Beyond the Sovereign Self. Aesthetic Autonomy from the…

  • Jana Müller

    Jana Müller. Falscher Hase / Mock Rabbit

  • Francois Dupuis-Déri, Benjamin Pillet (…

    Anarcho-Indigenism. Conversations on Land and Freedom

  • Editors for this issue: Ariane Müller,…

    Starship 20

  • Moises Puente (Hg.)

    2G 90. Johansen Skovstedt

  • Achille Mbembe

    Brutalism

  • Léa Perraudin, Clemens Winkler, Claudia…

    Material Trajectories. Designing With Care?

  • Chus Martínez

    The Complex Answer. On Art as a Nonbinary Intelligence

The Terraforming

The Terraforming is the comprehensive project to fundamentally transform Earth's cities, technologies, and ecosystems to ensure that the planet will be capable of supporting Earth-like life. Artificiality, astronomy, and automation form the basis of that alternative planetarity.
This short book was written in July 2019. It is is an opening brief and manifesto for The Terraforming urban design research programme at the Strelka Institute in Moscow. It is a narrowly targeted polemic against dominant modes of planetarity and a rejoinder to inadequacies seen in how critical philosophy and design seeks to confront them.
The title refers both to the terraforming that has taken place in recent centuries in the form of urbanisation, and to the terraforming that must now be planned and conducted as the planetary design initiative of the next centuries if true catastrophes are to be prevented. The term 'terraforming' usually refers to transforming the ecosystems of other planets or moons to make them capable of supporting Earth-like life, but the looming ecological consequences of what is called the Anthropocene suggest that in the decades to come, we will need to terraform Earth if it is to remain a viable host for Earth-like life.
Planetarity itself comes into focus through orbiting imagining and terrestrial modeling technologies (satellites, sensors, servers in sync) that have made it possible to measure climate change with any confidence. We will explore a renewed Copernican turn, and how the technologically mediated shift away from anthropocentric perspectives is crucially necessary in both theory and practice. The Copernican turn is also a trauma, as Freud once suggested, but this is one that demands more agency, not less.
The implications of the shift are perhaps counterintuitive. Instead of reviving ideas of 'nature,' we will reclaim 'the artificial'—not as in 'fake,' but rather 'designed'—as a foundation which links the mitigation of anthropogenic climate change to the geopolitics of automation. For this, urban-scale automation is seen as part of an expanded landscape of information, agency, labor, and energy that is part of a living ecology, not a substitute for one. As such, the focus of urban design research shifts toward the governance of infrastructures that operate on much longer timescales than our cultural narratives.


Benjamin Bratton
The Terraforming
Strelka, 2019, 9785907163010