Teen People Launch Party - Planet Hollywood: Beverly Hills, CA - January 13, 1998 - photographer: Lisa Rose / Globe Photos
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Teen People Launch Party - Planet Hollywood: Beverly Hills, CA - January 13, 1998 - photographer: Lisa Rose / Globe Photos
📽the slide collection series 📽
I am not okay omg <3
OH MY GOD?????
Just realizing I don’t think I ever posted my profile pic…
earrings fit him so well 🤩😍
Germs
Dark ecology is a way to explain the “irony, ugliness, and horror” of ecology. This is a way to look at and appreciate not only the lush, serene, and idealistic pieces of nature, but also simple or ugly things.
Timothy Morton argues that ecology is more than just biology and science. It is everything in this world connected. It is art and the humanities along with science. He calls this the ecological thought. Morton writes, “[i[t has to do with reading and writing. It has to do with race, class, and gender. It has to do with sexuality” (2). The ecological thought forces us to become one with nature instead of “othering’ it like we always have. We put it over there, far away, somewhere almost unreachable. But Morton is saying it is us, everything around us and in between. Morton terms it “the mesh,” an intimacy, interconnectedness, a coexistence that is open-ended (8)
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The mesh tells us that EVERYTHING is connected. There’s no way we can wrap our head around how each little part is connected; this is the strange stranger. Morton is saying we haven’t been able to comprehend that nature is connected to us instead of this far-away thing but we need to. We’re not going to understand it all though, no matter how much we try. Trying to comprehend it is strange, but realizing you can’t comprehend it all is stranger. By realizing that we are closer to nature than we seem it brings up the concept of dark ecology. Morton writes, “..life is catastrophic, monstrous, nonholistic, and dislocated, not organic, coherent, or authoritative” (275). Dark ecology is part of the reason we have othered nature and put it over there, away from us. We have repressed its dark side.
Fall Into The Centre Of The Earth And Deal With Yourself: On Sadie Benning’s Video Diaries (1989-1990) / Octavia Stocker (here)