Foreword / Rebecca Nagy -- Acknowledgments / Kerry Oliver-Smith -- Introduction / Kerry Oliver-Smith -- The world to come / Kerry Oliver-Smith -- Feminist counter-apocalypse: an ethical proposal for the anthropocene / Joanna Zylinska -- A world of our making / T.J. Demos -- Uncommoning nature / Marisol de la Cadena -- How to grow livable worlds: ten not-so-easy steps / Natasha Myers -- The ethics of deep time / Trevor Paglen
Summary:
The World to Come is organized around overlapping trajectories, constituting a network of ecologies and stories within stories. The narrative traces states of being and becoming, from rupture, disaster and loss to the emergence of nonhierarchical alliances in human-non-human relations. It also explores the realms of justice, aesthetics, ethics, and the role of technology while considering the possibilities for a vibrant future. The stories in this essay are structured by seven intersecting themes of the exhibition: Raw Material, Consumption, Deluge, Extinction, Synthesis, Justice, and Imaginary Futures.
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