Andreas Weber, Enlivenment: Toward a Poetics for the Anthropocene (MIT Press, 2019), 135.
See Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures (Zero Books, 2013).
During the pandemic, this also included “livable streets,” blocked-off roads, and time-limited access.
Georges Canguilhem, “The Normal and the Pathological,” in A Vitalist Rationalist: Selected Writings from Georges Canguilhem, ed. François Delaporte (Zone Books, 2000), 339.
Canguilhem, “The Normal and the Pathological,” 342.
In his text “Postcript on the Societies of Control,” Giles Deleuze extends Michel Foucault’s genealogical analysis of forms of social power and domination. He argues that we have departed the disciplinary society, organized through spaces of enclosure (family, school, military barracks, factory), to free-floating spaces of mutable control (continuous assessment, complex salary structures, data surveillance, fluctuating supply chains, and one can add traffic cameras, anti-climb paint, and “shared surfaces” in road design, etc., which embed rule enforcement into the physical environment). See Giles Deleuze, “Postscript on the Societies of Control,” October, no. 59 (Winter 1992): 3–7.
John Dewey, Art as Experience (Perigree Books, 2005), 13.
Matteo Pasquinelli, “Italian Operaismo and the Information Machine,” Theory, Culture & Society 32, no. 3 (2015): 56.
Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan, We Are “Nature” Defending Itself: Entangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones (Vagabond Pamphlets and Pluto Press, 2021), 119. An excerpt from the book was published in the February 2022 issue of e-flux journal →.
The terms “surplus population” is derived from Karl Marx and was imagined to be a temporary effect of capital’s continuous expansion and restructuring. As one line of production becomes overly productive (through automation and efficiency drives), markets become saturated, consumption drops, and prices fall. This leads to the temporary expulsion of labor from the labor process. However, the ultraleft journal Endnotes argues that due to complex effects of globalization, automation, and financialization, surplus populations are no longer the temporary collateral of capitalism’s “creative destruction” but a long-term condition for the global population. The resulting picture is the management of the human “surplus”—people divorced from land and therefore self-sufficiency—through “warehousing” them in ghettoes, prisons, and camps, or annihilating them in warfare. See “Misery and Debt: On the Logic and History of Surplus Populations and Surplus Capital,” Endnotes, no. 2 (April 2010) →.
Irmgard Emmelhainz, “Images Do Not Show: The Desire to See in the Anthropocene”, in Art in Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies, ed. Heather Davis and Etienne Turpin (Open Humanities Press, 2015), 136–37.
See Pierre Huyghe and Hans Ulrich Obrist, “Conversation,” in Pierre Huyghe at the Serpentine, ed. Natalia Grabowska et al. (The Serpentine, 2018), 313.
Huyghe and Obrist, “Conversation,” 313.
Huyghe or any other.
Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (Minor Compositions, 2013), 98.
Weber, Enlivenment, 58.
For a medical account of this phenomenon see →.
Fremeaux and Jordan, We Are “Nature” Defending Itself, 122.
See especially the work of Ariella Äisha Azoulay and David Lloyd.
Fremeaux and Jordan, We Are “Nature” Defending Itself, 124. Emphasis in original.
For Donna Haraway, “Staying with the trouble does not require such a risk-allaying relationship to times called the future. In fact, staying with the trouble requires learning to be truly present, not as a vanishing pivot between awful or Edenic pasts and apocalyptic or salvific futures, but as mortal critters entwined in myriad unfinished configurations of places, times, matters, meanings.” Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Cthulucene (Duke University Press, 2016), 1.
Gaston Bachelard, “Creative Imagination and Language,” in On Poetic Imagination and Reverie, trans. and ed. Colette Gaudin (Spring Publications, 2014), 70.
Bachelard, “Creative Imagination and Language,” 71.
Many thanks to Catherine Ferguson and the Planetary PhD Group at the Royal College of Art’s School of Arts and Humanities for all the discussions that have led to this article.