Crisis in the palm of our hands

This is a moment of compounding crises, where political rupture, environmental breakdown, institutional paralysis, and the erosion of democratic ideals intersect and intensify one another. These are ecologies of global crisis: emergent terrains, in which political, environmental, and personal catastrophes unfold through the same technological infrastructure — one that rests constantly in the palm of our hand. A casual scroll on our phones might expose us to climate extremes such as wildfires in Los Angeles or floods in Bangladesh, to footage of aerial assaults taken from a cockpit, alongside civilian recordings of their aftermath from the ground. Within the complex entanglement of image, body, and data, we find ourselves in a state of ongoing crisis: our nervous systems have long been operating in emergency mode, with constant alerts of overstimulation and fatigue. What do disasters look like when seen through the palm of the hand? What images do we see before our eyes just before we fall asleep? Who produces them, for whom, and in what ways do they affect our senses, stir up our emotions, and shape how we understand concepts like crisis, relation, or consent?