Adam Nocek discusses the geo-, bio- and necropolitical dimensions of nuclear media, and critically reviews the Nuclear Culture Roundtable that took place on 4 July 2019 at Het Nieuwe Instituut.

Following the Nuclear Culture Roundtable that took place at Het Nieuwe Instituut on 4 July 2019, and drawing on interviews with its participants, this article will look into possibilities of approaching nuclear culture differently in both near and distant future.

Anastasia Kubrak (Researcher, Het Nieuwe Instituut) interviewed Ele Carpenter, the curator of Nuclear Culture project, on shifting roles of visual arts in relation to nuclear matter, and challenges of navigating polarized discussions.

Reading Matter explores the relationship between design and matter from ecological, historical and sensory perspectives. What underpins the cultural difference between matter and material? And what are the possibilities for the non-exploitative forms of existence in the material world?

Summary of the Sandlab: Exploring Rotterdam’s Dependence on Sand, organised by Het Nieuwe Instituut on 1 August 2019.

Het Nieuwe Instituut Fellow Chris Lee’s project “Immutable: A Mineral History of Currency and Typography” researches how standards and documents function as instruments of state-making and colonial/ity/ism.