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Oceans in Transformation
Editors Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, John Palmesino, Markus Reymann, Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, Daniela Zyman
Contributors Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, John Palmesino, Astrida Neimanis, Anne McClintock, Cresantia Frances Koya Vaka’uta, Nabil Ahmed, Laleh Khalili, Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, Jeremy B.C. Jackson, and more…

Human impact on the Earth is usually narrated as a story of terrestrial and atmospheric modifications, with a focus on stratigraphic markers. Yet what is ultimately at stake in the Anthropocene is the health of our aqueous planet. While sea level rise has become the most alarming and acknowledged harbinger for oceanic catastrophe, a host of invisible and slow processes forcing marine degradation are undertheorized and often experienced and spoken for by different actors and research disciplines.

Oceans in Transformation is a collaboration between TBA21–Academy and e-flux Architecture within the context of the eponymous exhibition at Ocean Space in Venice by Territorial Agency and its manifestation on Ocean Archive.

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Four Cautionary Tales from the Future Asian Metropolis
Alvin Li and Junyuan Feng
Singapore, 2030 A tropical storm is brewing. A group of anonymous hackers recently leaked confidential government documents showing that Singaporea...
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Underwater (Un)Sound
Emma McCormick Goodhart
Frequency Fishing It’s only when we dive that we understand. —Pak Harun Mohamad “[To] get a sense in air of [a dolphin echolocating], b...
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Muddying the Waters
Margarida Mendes and João Martins
The Azores archipelago has long been considered a site of geostrategic relevance for geopolitical and resource exploitation due to its natural wealth ...
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Revaluing the Oceans
Jeremy B.C. Jackson
The oceans throughout history provided seemingly inexhaustible fish for people brave and skillful enough to exploit them. Whenever fish catches declin...
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Forest Gardens Beneath the Anthropocene Seas
Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams
Earth’s oceans are a permanent feature of its surface. They are visible, even though very faintly, six billion kilometers away in deep space. On a geo...
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Shipping Oil
Laleh Khalili
Flying above oceanic anchorages near the world’s largest oil ports reveals a tangle of all sorts of cargo ships waiting to bunker (refuel), as well as...
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Infrastructural Snare
Nabil Ahmed
In March 2019, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) acquired a leaked letter that would signal a new stage in their struggle for ...
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The Fisherman and the Scientist
Cresantia Frances Koya Vaka’uta
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Monster: A Fugue in Fire and Ice
Anne McClintock
monster From monstrum, monere: to show, warn, or remind by which gods give notice of calamity Hence: monstrous premonition demonstration ...
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The Sea and the Breathing
Astrida Neimanis
The Weather As an embodied experience and agentic force, weather moves, scars, imprints. Our armpits dampen in response to the heat; our jaws and t...
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When Above
Ann-Sofi Rönnskog and John Palmesino
0000 The horizon is the interception of sight with the surface of the planet. It is a space that marks both a position and a transient flux: it is ...
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Editorial
Nick Axel, Daniela Zyman, Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, Markus Reymann, John Palmesino, and Nikolaus Hirsch
Oceans in Transformation is a collaboration between TBA21–Academy and e-flux Architecture within the context of the eponymous exhibition at Ocean Spac...
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Category
Nature & Ecology
Subject
Water & The Sea, Climate change, Extractivism, Pollution & Toxicity, Anthropocene

Oceans in Transformation is a collaboration between TBA21–Academy and e-flux Architecture within the context of the eponymous exhibition at Ocean Space in Venice by Territorial Agency and its manifestation on Ocean Archive.

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