on navigating loss, death, decay, and extinction
As 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... 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 and
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Grief is so metabolizing, but we shouldn’t wait for death to access it. We should actively build grief rituals for ourselves like we would any other mental health practice.
Jasmine Bina • Five Ideas for Rethinking the World
Death and grief are great forcing functions that collapse all of your false narratives. It’s a vacuum cleaner for a messy mind, especially in a culture where we let nothing die, which means nothing can be reborn. It is a gift for the living in that way.
Jasmine Bina • Five Ideas for Rethinking the World
You need to find community right now because "grief demands a witness", and whether you realize it or not, we are all grieving. We're grieving many things. Everything. Both personal and public.
And if we don't metabolize this grief, we will not change.
Jasmine Bina • Repricing the Human Experience
One of the keynote speakers on stage said that of all people who go on bereavement leave after a loved one dies, half of them will quit their jobs within one year .
Jasmine Bina • Five Ideas for Rethinking the World
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
on digital ruins and decay (or lack thereof)
via @daisandconfused & @IamSuperMassive https://t.co/n9SQKEahbi