11/18/2025
OUT NOW: Issue 58 – Geo-Imaginaries of Technology
Conceived during a period of rapid and often unchecked technological development, the current issue of Afterall aims at reconsidering and expanding our understanding of what ‘technology’ is. A multifarious category, we approach technology here as always embedded within and informed by the particular conditions of the geopolitical, cultural and environmental contexts in which it is used and developed. Through this situated approach we hope to move away from a Eurocentric concept of technology and to make room instead for the multiple perspectives which shape what philosopher Yuk Hui calls ‘technodiversity’.
Exploring an array of disparate technologies – ranging from AI and cyborgs to bioengineering and surfing – as well as diverse geocultural contexts, the issue includes contributions from Li Qi , Ingrid Pui Yee Chu , Christin Yu , Filipa Ramos , Joël Vacheron , Nicolas Vamvouklis and Dorota Jagoda Michalska. It features artists Lawrence Lek , Lee Bul .bul , Revital Cohen .e.v.i.t.a.l.c.o.h.e.n and Tuur Van B***n .vanbalen , Sojung Jun, Im Heung-soon , Flaka Haliti and Kateryna Lysovenko.
On the occasion of the publication of this issue, we have made freely available on our website ‘Natural Causes: The Deaths and Afterlives of Art at the Digital Precipice’ by Ingrid Pui Yee Chu and ‘A Method with Plasticity: Sojung Jun in Conversation with Nav Haq & Adeena Mey’.
