AXIOM & SIMULATION Mark Dorf

AXIOM & SIMULATION examines the ways in which humans quantify our natural surroundings through the use of scientific and digital means.

I’m increasingly resistant to the notion of Sustainability… because what are we sustaining but the slow motion death of the life on Earth that has supported us? WE NEED TO ACCELERATE FORWARDS INTO THE FUTURE, DRAGGING ALL OF HISTORY AND ITS LESSONS WITH US.

Okay, that’s a tad hyperbolic… but there are a lot of legacy civilizational myths that need to be exploded. For starters, the crux of the Environmental Mythology, that the Amazon is some untouched Gaian Paradise, when the evidence points to it being a pre-Columbian garden that’s since ReWilded…

– let the great mythological post series begin!

http://grinding.be/2013/04/21/conservation-aint-what-it-used-to-be-we-need-to-be-bigger/ (via grinderbot)

autodidactic:

no child left behind

Arghhhhhhhh

A team carrying out repairs on the Victorian roof of an Oxford museum have discovered 150-year-old “graffiti”.

Painted 15m (49ft) high up in the rafters of The Oxford University Museum of Natural History is the message: “This roof was painted by G. Thicke and J Randall, April 1864.”