POOL
by artist SOLVEIG SETTEMSDAL
Coronavirus embodies the uncanny ecology that threatens our destruction—but also offers a pause in the headlong rush of our ecocidal civilization, opening possibilities of renewal.
004: Apocalypse
April 2020
There’s no ‘I’ in Apocalypse.
Relevant to the Day
Read Time: 3 minutes
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SKHMT, AP1S & AMVN
by artist CRICE
A poem immersed in the moment of its creation.
with photographer FIONA IBANICHUKA
A masked, apocalyptic fashion-vision from weeks before the pandemic.
Genesis
Read Time: 12 minutes
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AWAY
by artist BASIA GOSZCZYNSKA
A work of speculative fiction on endings, and beginnings.
THE CRYSTALLIZATION OF BRASILIA
by artist GUERREIRO DO DIVINO AMOR
A Lacanian exploration of Artificial Intelligence, and the body.
I’m So Sad, I’m So Fucked Up
Read Time: 6 minutes
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Cinema of anxiety at the edge of human extinction: A review of the Safdie Brothers’ ‘Uncut Gems’.
MONUMENT FOR LOST TIME
by LARISSA SANSOUR & SØREN LIND
From the felt experience of the Kosovo War, to an exploration of the experience of disaster through the sight of an eclipse’s corona.
Oh–Terrible Movie!
Read Time: 2 minutes
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BEFORE ENDINGS & BEGINNINGS
by artist MOIRA VILLIARD
A poem on the weaker points of apocalyptic movies.
BRITTLE SMILE
by artist EUNJUNG SUH
A look at Spain’s great literary family, the Paneros, and a consideration of psychological apocalypse as an occasion for poetry.
Unveiling the Collective in Isolation: Thinking the Apocalypse with D. H. Lawrence
Read Time: 13 minutes
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ESCAPE
by photographer TATIANA BONDAREVA
An evocation of the potentials for a collective response to apocalyptic murmurs that defies the biblical division between the saved, and the damned.
Michele undergoes a physical and visionary purging of life as she knows it.