“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Sunday, April 24, 2011

You Are Already Dead



Thanks to Carl DiSalvo for reminding me of this one. “See, according to this, you're already dead” says the palm reader—favorite moment. The director, a Buddhist, made this film about the bardo. Since the ecological emergency is a bardo, we better all watch it (yippee) and find out what to make of it.

Carl has a good phrase: “Our presence is much more than our own agency,” which I'm thinking about as I try to think about tuning. Several people have asked me about what on Earth it could be, since I've been advocating it as a future art practice in an ecological era.

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