hazel mae
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hazel mae
The climate crisis and the Anthropocene have made it clear that our old stories – often fixated on human heroes conquering nature or extracting resources – are inadequate. We need narratives that foreground entanglement: the interdependence of humans, non-human creatures, and the Earth itself.
As science forms an indivisible whole, one may say that there are no longer, strictly speaking, scientists, but only unskilled hands doing scientific work, cogs in a whole their minds are quite incapable of embracing.
Simone Weil • Oppression and Liberty
I think the alienation from material, means of production, skilled labor, and generational knowledge correlates to the rise of “brown people couldn’t have made that it was definitely the grays” sort of thinking.
Is there a “Rosebud” object in your past? A long-vanished thing that lingers in your memory—whether you want it to or not? As much as we may treasure the stuff we own, perhaps just as significant are the objects we have, in one way or another, lost. What is it about these bygone objects? Why do they continue to haunt us long after they’ve vanished
... See moreRob Walker • Lost Objects: 50 Stories About the Things We Miss and Why They Matter
What’s so annoying about these cultures is that they blatantly position the individual at the center of everything without being able to understand the need for care and various networks that would have to go into maintaining something over thousands of years. What infrastructures do you need in place, what kinds of labor, what kinds of... See more
Tamara Kneese • Who Gets to Live Forever? A Conversation about Biotechno-solutionism with Tamara Kneese and Santiago Sanchez
Other elements had the ability to unsettle, however. Long ago, towns had existed here, and we encountered eerie signs of human habitation: rotting cabins with sunken, red-tinged roofs, rusted wagon-wheel spokes half-buried in the dirt, and the barely seen outlines of what used to be enclosures for livestock, now mere ornament for layers of
... See moreJeff VanderMeer • Annihilation: A Novel (The Southern Reach Trilogy)
Ancient boundaries within landscapes were subtle and were not always marked in ways that can be identified by archaeology – even with its modern, sophisticated geophysical techniques. Certain trees, for example, could have been marked for special attention; piles of brushwood and bonfires could have been lit at certain times of the year. Such
... See moreFrancis Pryor • Scenes From Prehistoric Life
forgetting and landscape
We adjust to changes without measuring them; we forget how much the culture changed.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
"the question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
- edsger dijkstra