Tagged: anthropocene
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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.