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On Nonscalability: The Living World Is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales
The document explores how scalability, the ability to expand without changing the framework, has shaped modern projects, economies, and knowledge, leading to a loss of transformative diversity.
asletaiwan.org
Morton schreef eerder in Being Ecological (2019) dat het betrekkelijk eenvoudig is om van de natuur te houden als een ontzagwekkende, open ruimte, maar dat het een stuk ingewikkelder wordt wanneer we ons richten op de verontrustende, afschrikwekkende wezens met een minder menselijk gezicht die haar eveneens bevolken. Denk bijvoorbeeld aan kernafval
... See moreLisa Doeland • Apocalypsofie (Dutch Edition)
How to Walk and Talk: Everything We Know
How to plan and organize a walk-and-talk, including choosing participants, setting the duration and distance, arranging meals and lodging, and managing logistics and communications.
kk.org
In an essay called “Weird Ecology,” the writer David Tompkins compares Area X to a “hyperobject,” a term philosopher Timothy Morton used “to describe events or systems or processes that are too complex, too massively distributed across space and time, for humans to get a grip on.” Global warming, black holes, and mass extinction are contemporary... See more
e-flux • The Word Made Fresh: Mystical Encounter and the New Weird Divine - Journal #92
we cannot assume that everything interesting is at the same scale as ourselves.