Tagged: anthropocene
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The Cattle of the Sun
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, the Sea Peoples, and a herd of stored sunlight that neither breeds nor dies. Homer wrote down what that costs, and it is not the voyage.
The Atasthalocene
Nine lines into the Odyssey, Homer names the cause of shipwreck: atasthalíai — reckless follies, committed after fair warning. As Nolan's film opens worldwide, a closer look at the word our epoch may deserve, and the exit it names.
The Mythurgic Age
On mythurgy — story as labour: fictions that fund, name, and build themselves into the world — and why our age runs on science-fictional myths that organize behaviour long before they are ever true.
The Beam Goes Level
Comparison is the oldest instrument of thought — to weigh the unknown against a known measure. GLOBAÏA's Sfera gathers Earth's water, air, life, and human-made mass into spheres at true scale, and somewhere around 2020 the two pans — the born world and the made world — went level.
The Anthropocene Strait
Fourteen named rocks — Monomorphia, Pleonexia, Hyperbasis, and the others — that lie between us and a safe and just harbour. An allegorical wink at Homer, on the eve of Christopher Nolan's Odyssey.
The Sphere of Stranger-Minds
On the Xenoösphere — the planetary stratum where non-human intellect now takes shape — and the physical infrastructure that gives it body.