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How are politics shaped by different cosmologies? A talk by Lukáš Likavčan, author of_ Introduction to Comparative Planetology_.

John Palmesino from Territorial Agency on the Oceans in Transformation project.

Are there other ways to represent global and local developments in narratives that help us to see Earth anew?

The most competitive domain in global technology is the development of AI. Many believe that it holds the key to economic, political and technological dominance for the parties managing to wield its power.

Futures.gcc focusses on the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. These position themselves as competing digital, corporate service platforms and each brand themselves with their own futuristic architecture, megacities, investment opportunities and visions of artificial futures.

A lab devoted to collective research and the creation of a map of the current African geo-zone, part of the Networks.africa programme.

Lately the African continent has been the backdrop for a fierce competition between Chinese and American cloud platforms and hardware giants in pursuit of the most rapidly growing global user-base.

This afternoon program was the second iteration of the Vertical Atlas series and focused on Russia and its techno-cultural traditions. With contributions by Benjamin Bratton, Benjamin Peters, Ksenia Fedorova, Ksenia Tatarchenko, Metahaven and Anton Vidokle.

A lab devoted to collective research and the creation of a map of the current Russian geo-zone.

The second Vertical Atlas event focused on the Russian digital cosmos. How does a country with a tradition of central planning cope with the decentral internet and powerful foreign cloud-platforms? With Svitlana Matvyienko and Ksenia Tatarchenko.

Island.eu lab, part of the Vertical Atlas series, is devoted to collective research and the creation of a map of the current European geozone, within which different techno-political sovereignties clash.

Vertical Atlas: Island.eu explores ways of mapping new techno-political geographies, based on the tension between Europe's data protection against the borderless reality of cyberspace and the simultaneous datafication of the Mediterranean sea as an extended border of European sovereignty.