The Earth is undergoing a period of intense techno-scientific transformations. If no remedy is found, the ecological disequilibrium this has generated will ultimately threaten the continuation of life on the planet’s surface. Alongside these upheavals, human modes of life, both individual and collective, are progressively deteriorating. Kinship networks tend to be reduced to a bare minimum; domestic life is being poisoned by the gangrene of mass-media consumption; family and married life are frequently ‘ossified’ by a sort of standardization of behaviour; and neighbourhood relations are generally reduced to their meanest expression… It is the relationship between subjectivity and its exteriority - be it social, animal, vegetable or Cosmic - that is compromised in this way, in a sort of general movement of implosion and regressive infantalization.

Félix Guattari. The Three Ecologies

The vacuum of infinite space encompassing all. The universe as pictured in Milton’s Paradise Lost. 1915.

Joan Miró - Solar Bird (1944 - 46)

Real communism consists in creating the conditions for human renewal: activities in which people can develop themselves as they produce, organizations in which the individual is valuable rather than functional. Accomplishing this requires a movement – to change the character of work itself. And redefining work as a creative activity can only happen as individuals emerge from stifled, emotionally blocked rhythms of constraint. It will take more than the will to change, in the current situation; to resist neutralization itself demands desire.

Felix Guattari and Toni Negri, Communists Like Us, 1988, trans. Michael Ryan, 1990

Italy. Latium. Bomarzo. Sacro Bosco. Mostro in the garden of Pier Francesco Orsini. 1952.

Photo by Herbert List.

L’année dernière à Marienbad (1961) dir. Alain Resnais

Gregor Schneider, Total Isolation, Dead Space, (1989-1991)

“Whether I am insulating myself from the world, or whether it’s a breakthrough–I don’t really know.”

— Gregor Schneider