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"The Lathe of Heaven" written by Ursula K. Leguin
"Lilith Brood" written by Octavia Butler
Lilith wakes up in a strange room, a cell with cold and sleek gray walls. Her last memories were of the war, the loss of her son and of the man she loved. With Lilith, Octavia Butler brings the reader into a post-apocalyptic state of the world as we could have known it. The humans destroyed the Earth as they destroyed themselves. A ship of extra terrestrial nomads known as the Oankali, was sent to the Earth with the purpose of trading knowledge. These creatures have a particular thirst for knowledge, they are capable of constant accumulation of memory across generations, each individual knows and remembers everything that was processed through their body from the many thin sensory tentacles that cover their skin. Through them, they can acquire the genetic properties of all things, and their analysis gives them the power of copying, recreating and modifying what they studied and understood from the matter. Everything surrounding them are living beings, even their ship. They live for and through trade to enhance and spread their species through merging themselves with others that could be of interest. Humans revealed themselves to have an irresistible kind of cell construct which provoque deadly diseases such as cancer to humans but, well studied could bring the next generation to shapeshift into any form. The Oankali rescued the few livings that survived the man made catastrophe and started the process of healing the planet. For them, this is the perfect trade opportunity, a restored planet and enhanced individual in exchange for genetic evolution. The power relation generated by the work of Oankalis, and their strange appearance, lead suspicion into the mind of several survivors. The humans end up more difficult to convince than expected. This brings generations of conflict, miscommunication, distrust, until the mixing of genes and multicultural individuals come to defy the understanding of both peoples.
"The secret life of trees" written by Peter Wohlleben
“The Mushroom at the end of the world - on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins”, put together by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.
Chapter one : arts of noticing
In this chapter, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing looks for the connection between economy and environment. She takes well-known historical facts about the rise of the industrial era, its progress and its thirst for growth. She then exposes individual stories overlooked that point out the contradictions in promises and ruins of industrialisation for the human workers left without jobs and destroyed land. In the middle of this conflict, where the capitalist structure exploits both humans and non-humans into resources for investment, and humans try to fight for their survival in the same system. She asks this central question: after promise and ruins, another promise and another ruins, what emerges in the damaged landscapes ? Independent entities, migrant workers, get together from one destroyed forest to another to profit discretely from this desolation picking the Matsutake mushrooms which grows amongst the light and red pines. Capitalism tries to standardise, individualise, segregate, alienate beings. But when this system fails us, unable to rely on a stable structure, unpredictable encounters transform us. While we look at the Matsutake mushroom, where their caps appear from their rizomic roots communicating through the ground, and how it influences human behaviours in vulnerable post industrial landscapes, it can make us think about collaborative survival.
This chapter begins with an image, a scan of Mr. Imoto’s Map of revitalizing. An accumulation of brush strokes spreading china ink all over the page, in every direction possible building a mysterious chaos for people who are nor familiar with japanese writing. If you look long enough, the strokes transform into intricate lines representing, with a strong energy, all sorts of animals, plants, mushrooms, insects, flowers, leaves, birds, rabbits, falcons, beetles, fawns and deers, mosquitos and butterflies.
"Swing Time" written by Zadie Smith
"L'université de Rebiba" written by Goliarda Sapienza
"Les certitudes du doute" written by Goliarda Sapienza
Films👀
Kajillionaire - Miranda July
Uncut Gem -Frères Safdies
The pleasure of being Robbed
Bacurau - Filio Klebher Mendosa
Under the skin - Joathan Glazer
American Honey - Andrea Arnolds
Le pont du nord - Jacques Rivettes
Céline et Julie vont en bateau - Jacques Rivettes
Wendy and Lucy - Kelly Reichardt
Night Moves - Kelly Reichardt
A Iade Da Pedra - Ana Vaz
APIYEMIYEKI? - Ana Vaz
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Roza Terenzi - Modern Bliss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD2sKuzmQjA&list=PLPO3TQ5lFDw_ujpXd8D0B9i8B1viMQSr3
Basehead - Playing with toys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poMw4oko7RI
Sexy Planet - Bonnie Banane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORId1udUn_0
AYA - Aya Nakamura https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HpVXylp01E&list=PLtzCLY77F77C6efRjODph5przCMfrvmSL
ongoing projects :
"Living together - Loop session" for/with Henotics and Rafael
"Shmink" with Théo Sixou
Waiting and be patient with Ama Shyioka
"Wing blowing love story" with Ryan and Ama Shyioka
Letter Exchanges with Angel Adhera