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The end of this project in a darkness [a commitment to using the internet for a week without the amplification of Meta© products concurrent with the coming into formation of a new regime] that is a different kind of light. An electric energy between decent people dependent on different technologies
together through the process: a final summary as lights go out
It’s a rehearsing, when I speak to you. Because I trust you. And this is part of a set of conversations that have happened over time. We’re practicing as it were, what it is that I thin…
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January 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Olivia Laing, THE GARDEN AGAINST TIME
What a strange thing to do. This was the more sinister legacy of Eden: the fantasy of perpetual abundance. I was beginning to see what a poisoned fruit it truly was. So many of our most ecologically deleterious behaviours are to do with refusing impermanence and decay, insisting on summer all the time. Permanent growth, constant fertility, perpetual yield, instant pleasure, maximum profit, outsource the labour, keep evidence of pollution out of sight. The secretary of state's refusal to accept that there was no water for the power station was the epitomisation of this mindset, and the drought its consequence. It was all catching up with us now. To accept the presence of death in the garden is not to accept the forced march of climate change. It is to refuse an illusion of perpetual productivity, without rest or repair: an illusion purchased at a heavy, soon unpayable cost, inaugurating a summer without end, the fields burning, the trees like stones.
December 8, 2024 at 1:49 AM