Cascades - e-flux

Editors Nick Axel, Aric Chen, Nikolaus Hirsch, Martina Muzi

Contributors Bahar Noorizadeh, Case Miller, Kabage Karanja, Stella Mutegi, Feifei Zhou, Xenia Chiaramonte, Richard Cottrell, Ingo Niermann, Rahel Aima, Jimenez Lai

As pathways once taken for granted are abruptly obstructed, others previously thought inconceivable appear to suddenly open up. What might feel to some to be an ongoing contraction of the globe and its veins of circulation might really be the growing pains of things, people, and ideas moving in different directions, and at different speeds.

Cascades is a collaboration between MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology and e-flux Architecture.

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10 essays

Spaceship Hour

Jimenez Lai

Life Support What time is it? 6am? 10pm? I am once again waking up to the reflection of my face against the perpetual darkness outside, peppered by…

Moon Rose

Rahel Aima

On June 26, 2029, the Director launched the new moon. It was named Ruda, after the ancient pre-Islamic lunar deity. It made the bioluminescent coastli…

Terror’s Child Muses

Ingo Niermann

The first people I fell in love with were terrorists. The German fear of the communist Red Army Fraction (RAF) peaked in 1977, when I turned eight yea…

The Rift

Richard Cottrell

The North American Rift was discovered shortly after the end of the Great War, when it bisected a tractor on the morning run. Initial, informal tests …

Greetings from the Undergrowth

Xenia Chiaramonte

I have to write a story I am not entitled to tell. A parallel botanical story of myself. A story that I was made to tell. Once upon a time, I was …

Root Seeker

Feifei Zhou

I’ve been walking along this mountain belt for hours. I think I’m getting close—at least, according to the footage my drone captured yesterday. …

The Cave Canon

Kabage Karanja and Stella Mutegi

“This can’t be architecture…” Kali wrote on his yellow layout paper while gripping his clutch pencil. He sat obtuse against his chair looking …

Jubilee

Case Miller

Part 1 What we consider our core tradition of moral and political theory today springs from this question: What does it mean to pay our debts? �…

The Red City of the Planet of Capitalism

Bahar Noorizadeh

When the Contagion reached Hong Kong in 1997, Philip Tose traveled to 2047 to take a lump sum loan from himself. Most people blamed the magnitude of t…

Editorial

Nick Axel, Aric Chen, Nikolaus Hirsch, and Martina Muzi

Cascades is a collaboration between MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology and e-flux Architecture within the context of the exhibition X i…

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Fiction, Science Fiction, Climate change

Cascades is a collaboration between MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology and e-flux Architecture.

Contributors

Nick Axel, Aric Chen, Nikolaus Hirsch, and Martina Muzi Editorial
Bahar Noorizadeh The Red City of the Planet of Capitalism
Case Miller Jubilee
Kabage Karanja and Stella Mutegi The Cave Canon
Feifei Zhou Root Seeker
Xenia Chiaramonte Greetings from the Undergrowth
Richard Cottrell The Rift
Ingo Niermann Terror’s Child Muses
Rahel Aima Moon Rose
Jimenez Lai Spaceship Hour

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