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Grant McCracken • The Gravity Well Effect

Bits of information provide neither meaning nor orientation. They do not congeal into a narrative. They are purely additive. From a certain point onwards, they no longer inform — they deform. They can even darken the world. This puts them in opposition to truth. Truth illuminates the world, while information lives off the attraction of surprise, pu... See more

Noema • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information

There will be dust. There is always dust. By that I mean there is always time, and materiality, and decay. Decomposition and damage are inescapable. There is always the body, with its smears and secretions and messy flaking bits off. There is always waste and it always has to be dealt with, and shipping it out of sight overseas to the developing wo... See more

Places Journal • Maintenance and Care

book, The World Without Us by Alan Weisman, which speculates about just how the seemingly “permanent” infrastructure we’ve created is likely to decay in the absence of our maintenance of it. That book adds a beautiful piece to our puzzle, because once you realize how fucked we are, the next thing you often wonder is whether the biosphere will be ab

Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor

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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

Global → Terrestrial; Producing → Engendering: for these two frames, I am taken by Latour’s idea of ‘terrestrial’ as a move towards post-human exceptionalism. His proposal explores the possibility of 'de-centring the human', and acknowledging that we are in constant interaction with other beings and natural phenomena. And more importantly, a demand... See more

Medium • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics

Any news I might bring has already been brought. Thousands of scientific papers. Millions of newspaper column inches. Anyone who cares to pay attention already knows that we’ve broken Nature, and the world we know will soon end. This park, for one, is done for. This city I love, home to almost nine million, and one of humankind’s most extraordinary

Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor

From the author of Oval, a collection of “fan nonfiction” that proposes new possibilities and genealogies for weird fiction in the age of extinction.

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

“Our self-alienation,” he said, “has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.”