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Making the Geologic Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life
- Elisabeth Ellsworth (editor)
- Jamie Kruse (editor)
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| Title | Making the Geologic Now |
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| Subtitle | Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life |
| Contributor | Elisabeth Ellsworth (editor) |
| Jamie Kruse (editor) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0014.1.00 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/making-the-geologic-now/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| Copyright | Ellsworth, Elisabeth; Kruse, Jamie |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Publication place | Brooklyn, NY |
| Published on | 2012-12-04 |
| ISBN | 978-0-615-76636-2 (Paperback) |
| Long abstract | Making the Geologic Now announces shifts in cultural sensibilities and practices. It offers early sightings of an increasingly widespread turn toward the geologic as source of explanation, motivation, and inspiration for creative responses to conditions of the present moment. In the spirit of a broadside, this edited collection circulates images and short essays from over 40 artists, designers, architects, scholars, and journalists who are actively exploring and creatively responding to the geologic depth of “now.” Contributors’ ideas and works are drawn from architecture, design, contemporary philosophy and art. They are offered as test sites for what might become thinkable or possible if humans were to collectively take up the geologic as our instructive co-designer—as a partner in designing thoughts, objects, systems, and experiences. Recent natural and human-made events triggered by or triggering the geologic have made volatile earth forces sense-able and relevant with new levels of intensity. As a condition of contemporary life in 2012, the geologic “now” is lived as a cascade of events. Humans and what we build participate in their unfolding. Today, and unlike the environmental movements of the 1970s, the geologic counts as “the environment” and invites us to extend our active awareness of inhabitation out to the cosmos and down to the Earth’s iron core. |
| Print length | 262 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Dimensions | 178 x 254 mm | 7" x 10" (Paperback) |
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Contents
Frontmatter
(pp. i–x)- Jamie Kruse
- Elisabeth Ellsworth
Introduction
(pp. 5–26)- Elizabeth Ellsworth
- Jamie Kruse
Enter the Anthropocene: Age of Man
(pp. 28–33)- Elizabeth Kolbert
- Etienne Turpin
- Valeria Federighi
- William L. Fox
- Don McKay
- Bill Gilbert
- Erika Osborne
What is the Exponential?
(pp. 68–68)- Seth Denizen
The Dark Flight of Micrometorites
(pp. 69–71)- Ryan Thompson
Packaging Sludge and Silt
(pp. 72–78)- Stephen Dredge Research Collaborative (Becker
- Rob Holmes
- Tim Maly
- Brett Milligan
Inner-City Glaciers
(pp. 79–82)- Chris Neal MilNeil
Imagining the Geologic
(pp. 83–89)- Janike Kampevold Larsen
Ultra-Diamond / Super-Value
(pp. 90–93)- Oliver Goodhall
- David Benqué
- Julia Kagan
Distributed Evidence: Mapping Named Erractics
(pp. 99–105)- Jane Hutton
- Paul Lloyd Sargent
- Anthony Easton
- Rachel E. McRae
Land Making Machines
(pp. 115–122)- Brian Davis
Space-Time Vertigo
(pp. 123–129)- Brett Milligan
Fertilizing Earthworks
(pp. 130–134)- Chris Taylor
- Susannah Sayler
- Edward Morris
- The Canary Project
Artifacts: Trevor Paglen's Frontier Photography
(pp. 145–149)- Brooke Belisle
- Elizabeth Ellsworth
- Jamie Kruse
Autobiographical Trace Fossils
(pp. 154–158)- Ilana Halperin
- Rachel Sussman
- Matt Baker
- John Gordon
Time and the Breathing City
(pp. 170–172)- Chris Rose
Robert Smithson's Abstract Geology: Revisiting the Premonitory Politics of the Triassic
(pp. 173–179)- Etienne Turpin
Jarrod Beck: Geologic Anxiety
(pp. 180–182)- Anne Reeve
The Border Project
(pp. 183–185)- Victoria Sambunaris
473 Inches at 60 Frames Per Second
(pp. 186–187)- Wade Kavanaugh
- Stephen B. Nguyen
Nothing from Nothing
(pp. 188–192)- Katie Holten
Arts, Letters & Numbers: Situating Engagement with Material and Experiential Geographies
(pp. 193–195)- David Gersten
Neo-Eocene
(pp. 196–201)- Oliver Kellhammer
The Leslie Street Spit
(pp. 202–204)- Lisa Hirmer
- Shimpei Takeda
- Jamie Kruse
The Nuclear Present
(pp. 222–225)- Bryan M. Wilson
- Geoff Manaugh
- Nicola Twilley
Terminal Atomic: Technogromorphological Mounds
(pp. 238–242)- Center for Land Use Interpretation
Backmatter
(pp. 243–258)- Elisabeth Ellsworth
- Jamie Kruse
Contributors