on navigating loss, death, decay, and extinction
Strange, isn't it? To have dedicated one's life to a certain venture, neglecting other aspects of one's life, only to have that venture, in the end, amount to nothing at all, the products of one's labors ultimately forgotten?
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
Whether it’s in our cities, our homes, or our social relations, Mattern continues, “Breakdown is our epistemic and experiential reality...What we really need to study is how the world gets put back together.”
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
on digital ruins and decay (or lack thereof)
via @daisandconfused & @IamSuperMassive https://t.co/n9SQKEahbi
Joseph Awuah-Darko, a 28-year-old Ghanaian artist and entrepreneur, announced on Instagram in early December that he wanted to die. His battles with bipolar disorder had crushed his will to live, he said, so he had moved to the Netherlands to pursue medically assisted death.
Three days later, he followed up with one of ... See more
instagram.com“There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'Dib”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
― Frank Herbert, Dune
Dune Quotes by Frank Herbert
Death is a part of life... but have you ever thought about how your life affects those who come after you?
Explore the intertwined grief of losing loved ones and species extinction in our 5 powerful zines. Get ready to reflect on mortality like never before! Learn more
instagram.comAs Kader Attia writes in Repair: Architecture, Reappropriation, and The Body Repaired, “While in the Western world, the act of repair aimed at simply restoring an original shape, in traditional cultures the repairs aimed further, towards the creation of a new aesthetics. For the West, repair was an illusion of reappropriation of the self, but for n... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Some of the questions on the agenda for the participants to explore include "What is extinction and what are we losing? How do we understand loss and endings? How can an individual understand themselves in relation to a collective responsibility? What is the artist’s role in responding to mass extinction? What happens after the end has come an
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