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We rely on the existence of an “away,” where all this heat, waste, everything, goes to and stays in. But it never disappears – it comes back.
Buildings Born Ruins: Philosophy and Architecture After the Apocalypse - Failed Architecture
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 ex... See more
e-flux • The Word Made Fresh: Mystical Encounter and the New Weird Divine - Journal #92
In Han’s analysis, things and the spheres in which they exist, quite separate from our own when they wish to be, are enriching, but they can also be perilous. I suggest that his thinking aligns well with the original significance of faërie , defined as “the mythworld itself, which is everything outside of our control. Faërie is an old name for the ... See more
The things that tether us to Earth - A review of Byung-Chul Han’s Non-things
In these conditions of ontological precarity, forgetting becomes an adaptive strategy.
Mark Fisher • Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
In the natural world, nothing goes to waste. Matter constantly decomposes and reconstitutes in new shapes, serving new purposes. We have much to learn from this continuum of transmutation in human societies, where we throw “away” our waste to some invisible hereafter, rather than accept the truth: it remains.
Atmos
Languages change and evolve organically. But it is perhaps paradoxically necessarily that languages must remain mostly unchanging — mostly common between their speakers — such that change can be recognized and contextualized, rather than simply disorienting.