On Transindustriality - TETI Journal n.1
November, 2024

With: Cyrus Khalatbari, Loïc Rogard & Cédric Carles, Eduardo Cruces, Rafaël Newman, Juliane Ahn, Mara Züst, Time's Up / Tim Boykett, Ana Bisbicus, The New Liquidity / Anders Ehlin & Selma Boskailo, Paul Dolan, Alan Dunn

Editorial Board: Anne-Laure Franchette, Gabriel N. Gee, Stephanie Gygax, Caroline Wiedmer

The rapid transformations in economic and social fabric that have taken place since the advent of the Industrial Revolution has led observers to identify different sequences unfolding towards the present global yet fragmenting age. Fordism underlined the increased means of production delivered by an efficient division of labour within factories. Postfordism signalled the turn to even more flexible production modes, in parallel to the shift to global post-industrial societies, in which planning, management, information and knowledge industries, have become the central axis governing the shape of our social fabric. A focus on transindustrial patterns, however, aims to emphasise the ongoing circulations between different industrial, technological and cultural mutations, across interconnected historical periods. As such, it seeks to reflect on the ongoing role played by material infrastructure in the age of new media and climate change, on the physical roots that still inform digital expansions and virtual networks, and on the survivals, revivals, and haunting ghosts of past industriousness.