#TJDemos

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AWESOME congratulations @barbararmunoz Posted @withregram • @barbararmunoz Thrilled to be Guest Editor of 😷HEALTH 🌱#documentsofcontemporaryart published by @whitechapelgallery @mitpress - while contemplating how this book will land in September amidst this extreme health & political crisis. HEALTH maps contemporary practices confronting and reshaping wellness ideologies, critically tackling illness and impairment in their practice while changing ableist institutional dynamics. With @bighedva @filipaaaaaaaaaaa @portiamalatjie @dora_garcia_lopez @arriolaaimar @patrick.staff @miguelopez1 @oreetashery @patridominguez @tedkerr @catalinalozanom #tabitarezaire @margaridamendesm @wearecanaries @simoneyvetteleigh @pedronevesmarques and many others 💙 So grateful to @the_chus_martinez #tjdemos @helmut_recko for their generous endorsement 🙌🏽 Link in bio ⬆️ https://www.instagram.com/p/CAxHEDAKrrE/?igshid=1t744ifgn3h7z

[worldfoodbooks]

NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: T. J. DEMOS "Against The Anthropocene : Visual Culture And Environment Today" (2017) Addressing the current upswing of attention in the sciences, arts, and humanities to the new proposal that we are in a human-driven epoch called the Anthropocene, this book critically surveys that thesis and points to its limitations. It analyzes contemporary visual culture—popular science websites, remote sensing and SatNav imagery, eco-activist mobilizations, and experimental artistic projects—to consider how the term proposes more than merely a description of objective geological periodization. This book argues that the Anthropocene terminology works ideologically in support of a neoliberal financialization of nature, anthropocentric political economy, and endorsement of geoengineering as the preferred—but likely disastrous—method of approaching climate change. To democratize decisions about the world’s near future, we urgently need to subject the Anthropocene thesis to critical scrutiny and develop creative alternatives in the present. Available in the bookshop and via our website. #worldfoodbooks #tjdemos #againsttheanthropocene #sternbergpress (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)

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🙋🏻‍♀️ “Worlds at Stake: Contemporary art, Visual culture, and Political Ecology - 'the unbearable whiteness of green', 'the abject sublime', 'Mundane Afrofuturist Manifesto'... Water, structure, violence and toxicity, inequality and futures, Drexciya... 필기짱!!!!!!!! 열띠미함!!!!!!!!!!!🗯 A가 X에게 오늘의 주제에 넣고싶슴돠🤓 #tjdemos #terriweissman #thirdtext #researchproject #talk #mmca #mmcaseoul #국현미 #서울관 #짱오랜만😁 #contemporaryart #visualculture #politicalecology #artandpolitics #geoengineering #afrofuturism #climatechange #anthropocene #research #study #arthurjafa #drexciya #updatingblogsoon #✏️🖇📚 (at Seoul, Korea) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzLUjSRFf2R/?igshid=in0nifu6merp

[londongreenery]

T. J. Demos - 'Gardens Beyond Eden Bio aesthetics Eco futurism and Dystopia at dOCUMENTA (13)'  

To follow - research on artists mentioned.

[insurrectionaryam]

‘My conviction is that environmentally engaged art bears the potential to both rethink politics and politicize art’s relation to ecology, and its thoughtful consideration proves nature’s inextricable binds to economics, technology, culture, and law at every turn.[3]’ p.8 ‘Integral to the Zapatistas’ politics of aesthetics has been impassioned displays of revolutionary collectivism involving music and speeches, as well as carnivalesque parades and protests, and Indigenous craft traditions and mural painting.’ p.155

[spatialanomalousmatter]

Essay Plan - initial ideas

An initial idea for my essay title is: “Towards a cosmotechnical classification of technical objects”. That’s quite a precise title. It might be better in the future to find a more poetic title. There will be five main sections to my essay, one for each element: wood, fire, earth, metal and water.

Wood or Spring will discuss the genesis of the internet, and how it helps to spread Capitalism and its concepts far and wide. This section will also look at environmental aspects of internet use and the polluting effects of associated internet technologies.

Fire is associated with Summer. Lithium ion batteries and the environment could be explored here.

Earth is associated with Midsummer. Extraction of rare metals for technologies could a focus for this section. They are used in consumer electronics, electric or hybrid vehicles, wind turbines, magnets in weapons systems or aircraft. 

Metal is associated with Autumn. Bitcoin mining in China happens on a large scale due to their very cheap prices for coal powered electricity. Although there is a big move towards hydroelectric power in China, many Bitcoin mining farms have not yet converted to hydroelectric over coal-based electricity possibly due to cost. Bitcoin mining uses vast amounts of energy and contributes significantly to climate change because of this.

Water is associated with Winter. For this the story of The Three Gorges Dam might be relevant. Dams and other geoengineering projects in China are very popular with authorities. However they cause significant local environmental damage, uprooting of local residents and endangerment of animals and plants in the area.

Each element will have a different story. The different elements are also called phases, and change from one to the other in the order outlined above. I will keep this general order with the Wood or Spring story, telling the archetypal creation story of when computers (or hybrid computer/human entities) woke up. I will examine the invention of the internet through a cosmotechnical lens. The story will be analogous to Pangu, but about ARPA (from ARPANET) as the network that spawned the beginning of the internet.

I could look at how these technologies effect the environment and marginalised groups to see if there are similarities with Capitalism’s environmental aims in China to those in the US that TJDemos has outlined in his book and talks.

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangu

https://sociable.co/technology/tech-mythology/

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/11/battery-batteries-electric-cars-carbon-sustainable-power-energy/

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23812346.2018.1443758 ?

https://roskill.com/news/electric-vehicles-china-takes-steps-to-streamline-ev-battery-recycling/

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/30/business/europe-lithium-electric-batteries/index.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_earth_industry_in_China

https://theconversation.com/politically-charged-do-you-know-where-your-batteries-come-from-80886

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fire prepping Join us virtually by the fire as Orang Hutan broadcasts live from the fire pit with Caz Azevedo, warming us with conversation about her practice. Register to join https://www.cazazevedo.com/gallery.html. Also, link in bio. . . . . . @cazazevedo #arttalks #gallerytalks #art #fire #performance #installation #ephemeral #bluelight #evolution #sketch #cognition #racetothebottomofhhebrainstem #centerforhumanetechnology #artinthetimeofcorona #zoom #beadmaster #ecosexual #visibility #hitosteyerl #tjdemos #eyalweizman #forensicarchitecture #franceswhitehead #whatartistsknow https://www.instagram.com/p/CJwre-ylDHx/?igshid=1g6y3ujp38592

[hutanorang]

Join us virtually by the fire Join us virtually by the fire as Orang Hutan broadcasts live from the fire pit with Caz Azevedo, warming us with conversation about her practice. Register to join https://www.cazazevedo.com/gallery.html. Also, link in bio. . . . . . @cazazevedo #arttalks #gallerytalks #art #fire #performance #installation #ephemeral #bluelight #evolution #sketch #cognition #racetothebottomofhhebrainstem #centerforhumanetechnology #artinthetimeofcorona #zoom #beadmaster #ecosexual #visibility #hitosteyerl #tjdemos #eyalweizman #forensicarchitecture #franceswhitehead #whatartistsknow (at Santa Cruz, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJwrI0ZlPD0/?igshid=1309w1c8mjsx

[worldfoodbooks]

NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: T. J. DEMOS "Against The Anthropocene : Visual Culture And Environment Today" (2017) Addressing the current upswing of attention in the sciences, arts, and humanities to the new proposal that we are in a human-driven epoch called the Anthropocene, this book critically surveys that thesis and points to its limitations. It analyzes contemporary visual culture—popular science websites, remote sensing and SatNav imagery, eco-activist mobilizations, and experimental artistic projects—to consider how the term proposes more than merely a description of objective geological periodization. This book argues that the Anthropocene terminology works ideologically in support of a neoliberal financialization of nature, anthropocentric political economy, and endorsement of geoengineering as the preferred—but likely disastrous—method of approaching climate change. To democratize decisions about the world’s near future, we urgently need to subject the Anthropocene thesis to critical scrutiny and develop creative alternatives in the present. Available in the bookshop and via our website. #worldfoodbooks #tjdemos #againsttheanthropocene #sternbergpress (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)

[worldfoodbooks]

NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: T. J. DEMOS "Against The Anthropocene : Visual Culture And Environment Today" (2017) Addressing the current upswing of attention in the sciences, arts, and humanities to the new proposal that we are in a human-driven epoch called the Anthropocene, this book critically surveys that thesis and points to its limitations. It analyzes contemporary visual culture—popular science websites, remote sensing and SatNav imagery, eco-activist mobilizations, and experimental artistic projects—to consider how the term proposes more than merely a description of objective geological periodization. This book argues that the Anthropocene terminology works ideologically in support of a neoliberal financialization of nature, anthropocentric political economy, and endorsement of geoengineering as the preferred—but likely disastrous—method of approaching climate change. To democratize decisions about the world’s near future, we urgently need to subject the Anthropocene thesis to critical scrutiny and develop creative alternatives in the present. Available in the bookshop and via our website. #worldfoodbooks #tjdemos #againsttheanthropocene #sternbergpress (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)

[worldfoodbooks]

NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: THE EXILES OF MARCEL DUCHAMP by T.J. Demos Marcel Duchamp was a famous expatriate, a wanderer, living and working in Paris, New York, and Buenos Aires and escaping from each in turn. But exile, argues T. J. Demos in this innovative reading, is more than a fact in Duchamp’s biography. Exile–in the artist’s own words, a “spirit of expatriation”–infuses Duchamp’s entire artistic practice. Duchamp’s readymade constructions, his installations for surrealist exhibitions in Paris and New York, and his “portable museum” (the suggestively named La boite-en-valise), Demos writes, all manifest, define, and exploit the terms of exile in multiple ways. Created while the artist was living variously in New York, Buenos Aires, and occupied France during the global catastrophes of war and fascism, these works express the anguish of displacement and celebrate the freedom of geopolitical homelessness. The “portable museum,” a suitcase containing miniature reproductions of Duchamp’s works, for example, represented a complex meditation–both critical and joyful–on modern art’s tendency toward itinerancy, whereas Duchamp’s 1942 installation design entangling a New York gallery in a mile of string announced the dislocated status that many exiled surrealists wished to forget. Duchamp’s exile, writes Demos, defines a new ethics of independent life in the modern age of nationalism and advanced capitalism, offering a precursor to our own globalized world of nomadic subjects and dispersed experience. T. J. Demos is a Lecturer in the Department of History of Art, University College London and the author of The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp (MIT Press, 2007). His essays have appeared in such journals as Artforum, Grey Room, October, and Texte zur Kunst. Available via our website. #worldfoodbooks #marcelduchamp #tjdemos (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)

[worldfoodbooks]

NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: THE EXILES OF MARCEL DUCHAMP by T.J. Demos Marcel Duchamp was a famous expatriate, a wanderer, living and working in Paris, New York, and Buenos Aires and escaping from each in turn. But exile, argues T. J. Demos in this innovative reading, is more than a fact in Duchamp’s biography. Exile–in the artist’s own words, a “spirit of expatriation”–infuses Duchamp’s entire artistic practice. Duchamp’s readymade constructions, his installations for surrealist exhibitions in Paris and New York, and his “portable museum” (the suggestively named La boite-en-valise), Demos writes, all manifest, define, and exploit the terms of exile in multiple ways. Created while the artist was living variously in New York, Buenos Aires, and occupied France during the global catastrophes of war and fascism, these works express the anguish of displacement and celebrate the freedom of geopolitical homelessness. The “portable museum,” a suitcase containing miniature reproductions of Duchamp’s works, for example, represented a complex meditation–both critical and joyful–on modern art’s tendency toward itinerancy, whereas Duchamp’s 1942 installation design entangling a New York gallery in a mile of string announced the dislocated status that many exiled surrealists wished to forget. Duchamp’s exile, writes Demos, defines a new ethics of independent life in the modern age of nationalism and advanced capitalism, offering a precursor to our own globalized world of nomadic subjects and dispersed experience. T. J. Demos is a Lecturer in the Department of History of Art, University College London and the author of The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp (MIT Press, 2007). His essays have appeared in such journals as Artforum, Grey Room, October, and Texte zur Kunst. Available via our website. #worldfoodbooks #marcelduchamp #tjdemos (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)

[worldfoodbooks]

OPEN TODAY 12-7 PM. NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: T. J. DEMOS "Against The Anthropocene : Visual Culture And Environment Today" (2017) Addressing the current upswing of attention in the sciences, arts, and humanities to the new proposal that we are in a human-driven epoch called the Anthropocene, this book critically surveys that thesis and points to its limitations. It analyzes contemporary visual culture—popular science websites, remote sensing and SatNav imagery, eco-activist mobilizations, and experimental artistic projects—to consider how the term proposes more than merely a description of objective geological periodization. This book argues that the Anthropocene terminology works ideologically in support of a neoliberal financialization of nature, anthropocentric political economy, and endorsement of geoengineering as the preferred—but likely disastrous—method of approaching climate change. To democratize decisions about the world’s near future, we urgently need to subject the Anthropocene thesis to critical scrutiny and develop creative alternatives in the present. Available in the bookshop today and via our website. #worldfoodbooks #tjdemos #againsttheanthropocene #sternbergpress (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)

[worldfoodbooks]

OPEN TODAY 12-7 PM. NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: T. J. DEMOS "Against The Anthropocene : Visual Culture And Environment Today" (2017) Addressing the current upswing of attention in the sciences, arts, and humanities to the new proposal that we are in a human-driven epoch called the Anthropocene, this book critically surveys that thesis and points to its limitations. It analyzes contemporary visual culture—popular science websites, remote sensing and SatNav imagery, eco-activist mobilizations, and experimental artistic projects—to consider how the term proposes more than merely a description of objective geological periodization. This book argues that the Anthropocene terminology works ideologically in support of a neoliberal financialization of nature, anthropocentric political economy, and endorsement of geoengineering as the preferred—but likely disastrous—method of approaching climate change. To democratize decisions about the world’s near future, we urgently need to subject the Anthropocene thesis to critical scrutiny and develop creative alternatives in the present. Available in the bookshop today and via our website. #worldfoodbooks #tjdemos #againsttheanthropocene #sternbergpress