Find Something to Hide as Soon as Possible; An Interview With Anne Boyer
people endure inadequate housing, wages, and health care while our culture encourages self-blame and shame for financial hardship, relentlessly exploiting our fears and vulnerabilities.
Astra Taylor • Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions
One holds onto an aspiration for back to normal (although the desirableness of that version of the present has come under question as well) and thinks of recent events as mere hiccups and minor diversions in the greater scheme of things.
Jess Henderson • Dude, where’s my 22nd century? – On the Burnout of Future Images
Faced with the possible annihilation of the planet as we know it, certain modes of knowing fall short. Especially insufficient is knowledge that purports humans to be distinct from ecosystems, much less in control of them...A mysticism for the Anthropocene, just like mysticism through the ages, would regard the “object” of knowledge as alive and in... See more
e-flux • The Word Made Fresh: Mystical Encounter and the New Weird Divine - Journal #92
Meg began by acknowledging the central place of hope in our lives and culture. “The idea that history moves forward, the idea of progress, is one of the building blocks of Western civilization. Part of the bedrock we stand on. But we made it all up. We think our technology will save us, but it actually traps us. Our activism is fueled by similar no
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