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I n eighty-five essays, contributors nominate “extinct” objects and address them in a series of short, vivid, sometimes personal accounts, speaking not only of obsolete technologies, but of other ways of thinking, making, and interacting with the world. Extinct is filled with curious, half-remembered objects, each one evoking a future t
... See moreMiranda Critchley • Extinct
If we are to address the wholesale despoliation of the planet, and our growing helplessness in the face of vast computational power, then we must find ways to reconcile our technological prowess and sense of human uniqueness with an earthy sensibility and an attentiveness to the interconnectedness of all things.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
At some point in our headlong rush towards ‘progress’, we cut ourselves off from the communal crucible of close human connection that nurtured our species for hundreds of thousands of years. Since we first settled into agricultural civilisation we’ve engineered a series of socio-economic systems that have incentivised us to consistently exploit one
... See moreJoe Lightfoot • A Collective Blooming: The Rise Of The Mutual Aid Community
This collection is about love, death, plants, and weird fiction. It takes its title from a Margaret Atwood story in which an adolescent girl seems to turn into a tree. It examines works by Doris Lessin... See more
Elvia Wilk • Death by Landscape
yarned with Elders and Percy Paul about these things (along with a bunch of old dead white guys),
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Bayo Akomolafe post from 2nd Aug 2025:
My sharing to Erik which inspired these cards and convo
I often ask myself what my cosmopoetics truly offers these times of suffering and pain, what it offers these moments of relentless movement-building, and our shared longings for a more beautiful world.
The ideas of the paragogical (that we cannot unlearn dom
... See moreHer public reputation, like Demeter’s daughter, crawls back up from the underworld.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
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