Until We Know: The Waithood of Citrus Trees in Jeju, Korea
Citrus sapling farm in Jeju, Korea, July 2025. Photograph by June Hee Kwon. Around seven o’clock on a cold January morning in 2024, I arrived at Kim [...]
Visceral Lives in Taiwan’s Probiotic Visions
A pedagogical display using microbial Petri dishes designed to assist the public in distinguishing good and harmful bacteria at the Microbiome Carnival in Taipei, January 2026. Photo by [...]
Whose Science for the Greater Good?
I met Parker, an ecologist also staying at the Abisko Scientific Research Station, outside of my dormitory at 7:30 in the morning. It was July in the Swedish Arctic [...]
Memory and The Crafting of the Possible
The marriage of matter and mind A potter leans over the wheel. The body suddenly stiffens, the wheel starts spinning, the hands move fast. In a matter of moments, [...]
Architecture of Insomnia: Illuminating Absence in a Hometown of Overseas Chinese
She cannot think of the word for “jet lag” in either English or Chinese, so Vale momentarily switches to Italian and asks Ming, another second-generation Italian Qingtianese living in [...]
Negotiating Promised Futures in the Aftermath of Asylum
A photo of the drop-in showing the church hall. Photo by Hannah Morgan. In the week before the Christmas of 2025, I returned to a drop-in for [...]
Nostalgia for Lost Futures in Africa’s Global Metropolis
Boundaries of belonging within South Africa’s urban chronotopes Gauteng Province, South Africa’s industrial and political hub, illustrates how diversity and mobility in southern cities rub uncomfortably against ethics and [...]
“Make America Texas”: Baptists, Fracture, and the Foreclosed “MAGA” Future
Trump rally in Robstown, Texas, U.S.A, October 22nd 2022. Photo by Thomas Long. The caricature of the devout, “MAGA-republican” evangelical Christian is one that has dominated global [...]
Abundance, Plastics and Ch’ixi on the Bolivian Altiplano
Cholet “Monumental Cafeflor,” El Alto. Photo by VelascoMamani (Wikimedia Commons). Jutting from the streets of Bolivia’s highest and youngest city El Alto, playful facades of cholets bear [...]
Day Trip in Utopia
We inherit all the collapses of past dreams, and we are subject to the prediction, on the horizon, of collapses to come. Camille de Toledo, Les potentiels du temps [...]
