on navigating loss, death, decay, and extinction

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

Narrative depth resists the “more is more” logic of a society of spectacle. Narrative lives in lack and loss, what we choose to do with the time we have, how we spend our fleeting resources.

death salience + unfazed resiliency that are unspoken drivers behind so many behaviors today.

the great thing about living in a world of dying systems is that you are uniquely well-positioned to replace suboptimal systems with something superior. New growth takes root best in the decay of its predecessors. For most of the past, if you wanted to create a better future, you had to rally the troops and take someone else’s land or destroy exist