Superhumanity - MAP Office - An Apology to Survivors

An Apology to Survivors

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Installation view of the exhibition by Map Office Islands, Archipelagos, and Other Liquid Territories (2015). 

Superhumanity
October 2016










Notes
1

Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel (Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, 1940).

2

Jodi Dean, “The Anamorphic Politics of Climate Change,” e-flux journal. See .

3

Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species (London: John Murray, 1859).

4

Andy Weir, The Martian (2011).

5

Ibid., Casares.

6

Friday was named after the day Crusoe rescued him from being eaten by his captors, an act which led him to become Crusoe’s servant out of gratitude.

7

Daniel Defoe, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (London: W. Taylor, 1719).

8

Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (London: William Heinemann, 1902).

9

Alexander V. Chayanov, The Theory of Peasant Economy, eds. Daniel Thorner, Basile Kerblay and R. E. F. Smith (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986).

10

Lenin uses the classic Marxist theory by proposing a three-tiered structure: rich, middle and poor peasants.

11

Ibid., Casares.

12

Gerald Vizenor, Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1994).

13

Jacques Derrida, The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II, trans. Geoffrey Bennington (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011).

14

Farmers often refer to atmospheric, rather than chronological time.

15

Jason W. Moore, ed., Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism (Oakland: PM Press/Kairos, 2016).

Superhumanity, a project by e-flux Architecture at the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, is produced in cooperation with the Istanbul Design Biennial, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand, and the Ernst Schering Foundation.