What can an anthology on art, technology, society and the environment tell us about the future? In a period of a prolonged generalised crisis, to what extent can critical texts and culture at large offer tools for thinking and acting? Overwhelmed with the feeling that we have no agency to affect what happens in the world nowadays, the only way to step forward might be to look back without losing our desire and urge to affect the present and shape the future.

𝗗𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗻𝗲 𝗗𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗼𝗻𝗮 is a curator, writer and researcher working in Berlin and Athens. In her current work, she addresses the promises of degrowth for art and culture, and the role of technology in times of climate crisis. She has collaborated with Onassis Stegi, transmediale, LAboral, EMST, Akademie Schloss Solitude and other institutions as a curator of exhibitions, conferences, workshops and other programmes.

𝗗𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗼 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮 is an art critic and curator. He has been curating exhibitions internationally since 2005 and is, among other things, the author of Beyond New Media Art (2013) and Surfing with Satoshi: Art, Blockchain and NFTs (2022), professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, and co-founder of the Link Art Centre (2011–2019).

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀: Aude Launay, Bojana Kunst, Clémence Seurat, Daniela Silvestrin, Dušan Kažić, Eva & Franco Mattes, Felix Stalder, Florian Cramer, Geoff Cox, Ida Hiršenfelder, Inke Arns, James Bridle, Jaya Klara Brekke, Jon Lackman, Lev Kreft, Marc Garrett, Martin Zeilinger, Matthew Fuller, Mojca Kumerdej, monochrom, Nika Mahnič, Paolo Ruffino, Primož Krašovec, Régine Debatty, RYBN, Silvio Lorusso, Steve Rushton, Tomislav Medak, Trevor Paglen, Valentina Tanni, Vuk Ćosić