beyond extraction
Araucanía and antofogasta’s geological narratives
in daily memoriam
Birding Aesthetics
It marks the difference between birding aesthetics and artifact aesthetics: the former is a cognitive aesthetics strongly motivated by an outward curiosity and sensitivity, whereas the latter is able to detect beauty in a much narrower scope of creatures that fall in the manmade categories of cute.
She Could Be a Cult Leader (II)
Medicine is powerful; in front of medicine, humanity manifests its bizarre, absurd, and surreal aspects.
She Could Be a Cult Leader
Incessantly rubbing your nerves against the limits of cognition, she is the only one who, if fully understood, can possibly lead her audience on a self-made cult.
Morbid Doors - Either Maniacs Or Philosophers
The boundary can be crossed with or without the door. Doors distance, deceive, provoke, manipulate, and reveal.
A House to Look from and One to Be Looked at
The house is the most intimate shelter of a soul, as intimate as a piece of clothing.
The Fascinating Semi-Gravity
Towers, observatories, watchtowers, windmills, sheds, and nameless structures – the world of Minoru Nomata.
The Erudite Funes and the Naming of Things
Funes has been gifted and cursed by an extraordinary eidetic memory. What he wants is to encode each number a unique name of an object, a person, a place, a sound, a smell, or another number. He isn’t the only one who attempted to name a series of things.
Mortal Monuments
Monuments are made to be immortal, but they are products of their environment just as humans are products of their habitats. The creator’s intention will continue to be diluted by the changing interpreter.