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What is the scale of matter, of spacetimemattering? We are stardust—made of atoms cooked inside of stars through a process of nuclear fusion—all the while, a brilliance “brighter than a thousand suns” resides inside the nucleus of an atom. The largest of space-time-matter measures, the smallest of space-time-matter measures: each contained inside the other, each threaded through the other. A strange topology.

Art of living in a damaged planet - Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan, Nils Bubandt

Ghosts, too, are weeds that whisper tales of the many pasts and yet-to-comes that surround us. Considered through ghosts and weeds, worlds have ended many times before. Endings come with the death of a leaf, the death of a city, the death of a friendship, the death of small promises and small stories. The landscapes grown from such endings are our disaster as well as our weedy hope.

Arts of living in a damaged planet - Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan, Nils Bubandt