"Strelka Mag — Exploring new urban conditions. The online magazine of Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design."

"Grappling with all the uncertainty, the epidemiologist’s role during the pandemic proved confusingly complex. A more pragmatic, problem-solving mindset might help in making good decisions."

"Philosopher and political economist Philippe Van Parijs looks at whether the cultural sector could benefit from a period of re-thinking what work is"

"As the world reckons with the grim reality of the climate crisis, right-wing populists are adapting their message."

>"The World Bank has warned in a new report that Myanmar faces severe economic losses and a doubling of poverty as a result of the combined impact of the coup and COVID-19, with the military regime unable to govern effectively."

>"As the pandemic slowly comes to an end, a new and deadly form of populism is rising."

“My father died in the 1918 flu,” my dad told me. Only later did we learn how the pandemic created enduring family secrets and _...Read More_

>"Even before the COVID-19 crisis, global instability had caused a worrying rise in epidemics. Medical science alone won’t be able to turn the tide."

"The Covid-19 crisis has changed the way that the wider public think about parenting and the division of domestic labour. But as schools re-open and society slowly _...Read More_

Franco "Bifo" Berardi dissects the concept of freedom as claims to it mutate and morph between leftists and fascists in mid-pandemia. What is left of free will when _...Read More_

Bruegel the Elders’ Triumph of Death (1562) depicts the victory of death over life, as death riding a red horse and wielding his scythe leads a skeleton hoard against what remains of the living. In the painting the dead rise again to help _...Read More_

"At some point it just became harder to get out of bed in the morning, and I gradually stopped all the activities... Suddenly nothing made sense."

"As streaming platforms extend their monopoly on music during the pandemic, the effects can be heard in the structures of songs themselves argues Ted Mair. "