urban shangri-las
Research Blog | August 13, 2013
Here is a news story about a rooftop mountain retreat built illegally atop an apartment building in Beijing:
Archigram’s Log Plug
Research Blog | May 13, 2013
.. for living naturally. from Archigram’s archive. They rock.
Landscape as con art
Research Blog | May 11, 2013
NYT Article on employing feng shui around public spaces as manifest obfuscations in Chinese gov’t corruption coverups.
OOO for dummies (like me)
Research Blog | March 2, 2011
I’ve been scampering and doing a troll-like stumble, following along with Tim Morton‘s logorrheic flights for some time now, and gotten twinks of excitement about things like Speculative Realism and Object Oriented Ontology (OOO). Of course I have no thorough (or even scanty) background in this stuff or its antecedents, but it gets me tweaked,…
“Imagine what we know.”
Research Blog | February 23, 2011
The subject line is Percy Shelley’s. This part of an essay by Tim Morton, “Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There!” included in the exhibit/site RETHINK — Contemporary Art & Climate Change (2009). Among other provocative chunks and challenges: Along with figuring out what implications science has for society and so on, humanists should be asking…
The Contemporary Condition: Fragile
Research Blog | September 17, 2010
“I don’t for a second buy into the story, promoted both by deep greens and by the right, that Mother Earth will just brush us off and recover. Faith in an all-powerful deity is precisely a way to ignore hyperobjects. Some people commented on my previous post on hyperobjects, wondering whether God could be considered…