on navigating loss, death, decay, and extinction
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
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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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Death is a part of life... but have you ever thought about how your life affects those who come after you?
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instagram.comOne 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 .
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on digital ruins and decay (or lack thereof)
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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
"When I am dead
do not name me in relation to capital I will
be wageless & worthless & perfect."
–Brendan Joyce
eulogy values
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