Keep it Flat
Publication
Keep it Flat. A Short History of the Flat Earth is a book co-published with Les presses du réel to coincide with the exhibition Terra. Designing Our Planet, in which the Keep it Flat installation is presented for the first time by designers Emma Pflieger and Antoine Fœglé.
What is the definition of the flat Earth theory? How does this theory appropriate political and scientific events to offer an alternative narrative? From trains and YouTube videos to radio and photography, the flat Earthers have skilfully capitalised – and continue to do so – on the means of disseminating information to cast doubt on the Earth’s sphericity.
Keep it Flat. A Short History of the Flat Earth brings together the views of a design theorist (Alexandra Midal), a neuroscientist (Albert Moukheiber), two designers (Antoine Fœglé and Emma Pflieger), and exhibition curators (Jolanthe Kugler and Scott Longfellow) in an attempt to escape from the Manichean vision that is generally at work in the collective unconscious and to understand the underlying mechanisms behind the flat Earth theory.
This publication is available in French and English from our bookshop.
CHF 20
| Project management | Jolanthe Kugler Scott Longfellow |
| Authors | Jolanthe Kugler et Scott Longfellow Emma Pflieger et Antoine Fœglé Alexandra Midal Albert Moukheiber |
| Co-publishing | Les presses du réel/mudac |
| Editorial coordination | Marie Taillan |
| Graphic design and layout | Notter+Vigne |
| Languages | French English |
