Sofia Schartner, The Pizza Index, 2026

The Pizza Index is an exploration of the correlation between pizza orders and global conflicts. Efforts to trivialise catastrophe in moments of uncertainty now circulate online through White House reels, betting markets, or tracking spikes in pizza orders near the Pentagon. The Pizza Index’s capacity to highlight a ludic drift in contemporary warfare also reveals a broader cultural obsession with forecasting and prediction, particularly in relation to geopolitical events.