Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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11 Redundant infrastructures
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10 Watching Animals Doing Nothing
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09 Umbrellas and other Umbracula
Margherita Tess and Santiago Orrego prepared this issue. Zeynep S. Akinci curated it, and Santiago edited and designed it. We close our trilogy on urban shadows by presenting a collaborative number on umbrellas, parasols, canopies, and other personal devices producing minimal shade. The issue has the Japanese city of Fukuoka as its primary site for exploration and Medellín, Colombia, as…
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08 Prototypes for a Department of Umbrology
Collective work on the DoU hypothesis and the zine (in alphabetical order): Zeynep S. Akinci, Zahra Behrouzmoghadam, Carla Boserman, Maria Cifre Sabater, Tomás Criado, Fernando Domínguez Rubio, Adolfo Estalella, Ricard Espelt, Elena García Nevado, Rubén Gómez Soriano, Anna Koskinen, Daniel López, Ali Maddahi, Isaac Marrero Guillamón, Francisco Martínez, Marta Morgade, Davoud Omarzadeh, Santiago Orrego, Irra Rodríguez Giralt, and Enric Senabre. Essay: Tomás Criado. Graphic report of the event: Tomás Criado and Santiago Orrego. DoU zine…
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07 Trashure Hunting
This issue was prepared by Jakob Feldmann, Lennart Stanze, and Marcus Garrison Manualpillai. It was designed and curated by Santiago Orrego. This is a particular number of this project. It is the first publication of Tarde’s educational segment. This initiative aims to involve graduate and undergraduate students in producing tiny ethnographic field devices to explore and reflect…
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06 The City of Shades
This issue was prepared by Tomás Criado and curated by Zofia Buni and Paloma Yáñez Serrano—design and edition: Santiago Orrego. Our climate cultures are in crisis. Heat is no longer a distant or abstract event, something that happens to us. It is among us. And in its most extreme versions, it appears more like a chronic illness with profound, unequal, and devastating…
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05 Landscaping Pavements
Tomás Criado prepared this issue. Ester Gisbert Alemany curated it—design and edition: Santiago Orrego. Editorial note: Landscaping Pavements is the first issue in a series of urban explorations that are part of an ongoing collaboration between Tarde and xcol.org. Find a detailed guide on how to assemble the printed version of this issue by clicking here We, modernist urbanites, tend to have…
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04 Rats as Urban Infrastructure
Karolina Lukasik, Heta Lähdesmäki, and Toumas Aivelo from the Urban Rats Project have curated this number. This issue was co-produced with Artem Pankin. Content Introduction to the issue The conception of cities as multispecies scenarios of cohabitation [1] and confrontation [2] proposes two concatenated set-ups in which, first, nonhumans living in urban areas are involved in different anthropocentric networks, most of…
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03 Urban Animal Enclosures
Ignacio Farías and Léa Lacan have curated this number Conceived as an experimental exercise of empirical philosophy [1], this number of Tarde stays in Berlin to examine a type of urban location where people see and interact with mostly farm animals kept in captivity. The exercise will be essayed online and through this number’s printed version. As usual,…
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02 The Insignificant Others
Catherine Oliver and Christopher Kelty have curated this number. Content Introduction to the issue Far from being a human-made product, cities are the convergence of a continuous set of assemblages involving all kinds of elements such as animals, weather, plants, and other objects and beings we have labeled as non-humans. This category is ontologically broad enough to include…
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