Originally posted Jun 26, 2017 to Pyramid News Scheme * The Anthropocene means a “permanent” — intensifying, long-duration — state of exception. Reichstäglich fires: Western democracy burns and burns. It’s capital! The tire fire, the coal bed fire. Natural causes. A metastate of exception? What is a “metastate?” Wikipedia says: “In statistical mechanics, the metastate is a probability measure on the space of […]
Originally posted Jun 27, 2017 to Pyramid News Scheme. * A utilitarian AI charged with global sovereignty by a cabal of well-intentioned scientists and their monied supporters. Its goal: in the face of cascading catastrophic climate change, nothing less than the preservation to the greatest degree possible of Life As We Know It — life on this planet as […]
As much of a pleasure as it was to appear at the Shanghai International Literary Festival with Jen Bervin, Jen Hyde and Wen Jin, it was one mixed — as is always the case for me here in Shanghai — with significant measures of the odd and the off. Don’t get me wrong: One of the things I like about life in […]
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Abstract from NYU Shanghai Faculty Lecture, based on talk given at Fudan University, on poetry, poetics and the Anthropocene. I remain unconvinced in my own work, by my own work, and of it, and that’s perhaps the point, the point that can only be to keep working: In The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, […]
Chernobyl with youth group. Now in light of Fukushima, we are afraid. “Museum of Oblivion” review. Mixed material dioramas by Tatu Tuominen and Tuoman Laitinen; HD video and light box video stills and photographs by Tuomas Laitinen; acrylic, cut paper and epoxy on aluminum-composite works by Tatu Tuominen at Art Plus Shanghai, Shanghai. Jan 8 – […]