In Issue 3, contributors take on the contradictions of the skies—between global causes and local effects; between invisible sources of very visible harms; between complex systems and the necessity of planning; between a space teeming with life and with the noise of digital infrastructures—to ask how we might see the air around us more clearly.

The BREAK—DOWN asks how politics, economics and culture both shape, and are being reshaped by, the climate and ecological crises. We publish new writing, conversations and stories from around the world that explore the urgent questions we face today, what the future might look like, and how we can reimagine it.

The BREAK—DOWN is a not-for-profit project in partnership with Common Wealth and Planet B Productions.