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Toxic temple : an artistic and philosophical adventure into the toxicity of the now / Anna Lerchbaumer & Kilian Jörg (eds.).

Lerchbaumer, Anna, (editor.). Jörg, Kilian, (editor.). Aranda, Julieta, (contributor.).

Summary:

What changes when we religiously worship the toxic? In this era of catastrophe, can a cosmic connection be achieved through a cult of pollution? 'Toxic Temple' is an artistic-philosophical quest to understand the current parlous state of the world. We offer our inner contradictions and destructive lusts as objects of worship. We enter wastelands instead of new territory, leaving space for artifacts, expressing solidarity with the factual. We encounter colorful assemblages of things that connect the known cosmos, tread the shaky ground of novel divinity, inhale pungent odors that transport us to the sublime. Garbage dumps are the new temples. In a mania of sadistic composure we breathe in the here and now. Transformative forces are released, free radicals; rituals that expose the chaos that lurks beneath the surface.

Record details

ISBN: 9783110769142
ISBN: 311076914X
Physical Description: 249 pages : color illustrations, color map, photographs ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Berlin : De Gruyter, [2022]
Copyright: ©2022

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Formatted Contents Note:

Ecology beyond numbers / Kilian Jörg -- Remembering wasteland or why the world is out of joint / Elisabeth Falkensteiner -- A panda a day keeps the sorrow away / Anna Lerchbaumer -- Life and death in the anthropocene / Heather Davis -- It's getting late to give you up - promising and problematic muddy temporalities, toxic alliances and bubbly commitments / Julia Grillmayr -- What kind of (hi)story is the end of the world? / Kilian Jörg -- Toward a glossary of the oceanic undead: a(mphibious) through f(utures) / Julieta Aranda, Eben Kirksey -- Hounding / Samuel Hertz -- Can one hear global warming in the hiss of air conditioning? / Anna Lerchbaumer -- Producing the afterlife / Sabrina Bühn, Demi Spriggs, Kilian Jörg -- Toxic prayers / Kilian Jörg.