Every world’s fair is a curated bet on the future. But more than that: it is a political act. To make a particular future feel inevitable before it has been decided. These are the visions that became infrastructure, and what they cost.
At 9:15 on the evening of 27 May 1933, light from a star then believed to be forty light-years away turned on the Chicago World’s Fair. Arcturus had been chosen because its light was believed to have begun travelling toward Earth at…
Each essay engages one or two recurring analytical themes. These are not categories - they are lenses that accumulate meaning across the archive.
One exhibition. One hidden assumption. One pattern that still operates today. New essay every two weeks.