Nina Goodheart
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Nina Goodheart
Any manifesto worth reading demands the impossible.
Julian Hanna • The 10 Things All Great Manifestos Need
I love PDFs. I love my huge heap of documents. I have bought a large plastic trifold folder to store them. I dream of rolling around on my PDFs like Scrooge McDuck diving into his vault of gold and swimming around.
amateur hour
There’s a lot of alienation; a lot of disaster porn. We need grieving rituals so we can go through our despair together, so we can face the losses we know are coming.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
MAKING ART and APOCALYPSE
What creature stands its ground
after evisceration? Roadkill.
after evisceration? Roadkill.
Unpeopled Eden
And so, the builder of this chatbot is forced to ask difficult questions about the deceased that call for care and attention: how do I want to remember them? How should a person be remembered? The deliberative effort that goes into building a chatbot highlights that the end product is a representation, inflected with the creator’s choices and... See more
Amy Kurzweil • Are chatbots of the dead a brilliant idea or a terrible one? | Aeon Essays
Solnit suggests that the real disaster is everyday life, which alienates us from each other and from the protective impulse that we harbor.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
I believe that’s why the theater is actually going to grow in the twenty-first century, because it forces us to slow down. The circadian rhythms are being lost, technology is speeding up, so we have to go somewhere and literally have a one-to-one relationship with the tick-tock of the clock.
Sarah Ruhl • BOMB Magazine | Sarah Ruhl
– Paula Vogel
Contemplating annihilation can certainly be a valuable means of reckoning with death, loss, abandonment and a capricious universe, but one can also detect the rumbling of a bad conscience – a dark suspicion that the end might be richly deserved. Usually, a writer will pass some kind of judgment on the world that is in peril. It is not hard to tell... See more