Stuff is happening. The book Hyperobjects is now in a way irrele-vant—everyone knows, everyone intuitively feels (which is much more important) what a hyperobject is. Coronavirus is everywhere. You can’t see it. It operates on all kinds of different scales—terrify-ing interpersonally or if you’re being forced back to work or school; weirdly amazing…
Considering the wide range of projects, scales, issues, and epistemic frames that the project ended up traversing, it is important to mention that Forensic Architecture had a modest start: it was inspired by the unassuming work of building surveyors—the careful and systemic analysis of the structural and infrastructural conditions of a building.17 Building surveyors understand a crucial thing…