Articles with tag: geology

Issue 10
Issue 11 Teaser animation (picture of cancer cells turning into TV noise and back again)
Deleuze
littoral spaces
geology
detention centers
migration
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Shapes on the Horizon

Reading the Pumice Raft and Migration through Agentic Ecologies and Australian Border Control

Following the eruption of geologic matter from an undersea volcano in 2019, its pas-sage through ocean waters and rendering in media representations, to traversals of these same waters by asylum seekers journeying to Australia, we seek to draw a line between mediatisation, attention, and flow as it relates to the drawing of borders. Through considerations of the agentic power of bodies, toward a reading of Australian history […]

Issue 2
nonhuman
aesthetic of slowness
anthropocene
geology
Max Frisch
Man in the Holocene

“Che tempo, che tempo”

Geology and Environment in Max Frisch’s Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän

With the emergence of geology as a scientific discipline around 1800, the conception of the earth’s history went through a period of profound change.[1] In contrast to the biblical account of creation, dating Earth’s origin to 6000 years ago, the planet suddenly appeared as the outcome of inconceivably vast time periods that bore no evidence of any human presence or divine origin. Trying to determine the age of fossils, the French comparative anatomist Georges Cuvier saw a relationship between this conception of deep time and the […]