Land

Planting seeds in your ancestor’s garden can be catastrophic as it was for Aniedi, the protagonist of Gabrielle Harry’s, When They Call, You Answer. In this world, teletowers give a straightforward and efficient alternative to the meandering trials of language acquisition for the children of elders who fail to pass mother tongues down. But perhaps it is precisely this friction and frustration which is most in need of cultivation at a time when those in power would like to strip the land barren. Underneath all the slogans, government master plans, militia origin stories, and corporate tech marketing, lies the question of land. Tech takes place somewhere, there’s no digital without the earthiness of analog; be it graves, the American Dream of your personal car on an open road or a Montevideo data center. We come to you at this late hour because Logic(s) has exited Columbia University’s Incite Institute by the skin of our teeth. May the range and depth of our editorial vision embedded within this issue drive you to donate, subscribe or become a member.