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I am as fascinated by the machines I was fascinated with as a child equally at 36 as I was at 3. At least I can find a way to share them with the world. It’s the same machines that now appear and create an uneasiness in my stomach; the feeling of ‘what is being built now,’ and when is enough, enough?
“Instead of saying that everyone – i.e. every one – is responsible for climate change, we all have to do our bit, it would be better to say that no-one is, and that’s the very problem. The cause of eco-catastrophe is an impersonal structure which, even though it is capable of producing all manner of effects, is precisely not a subject capable of exercising responsibility. The required subject – a collective subject - does not exist, yet the crisis, like all the other global crises we’re now facing, demands that it be constructed.” - Mark Fisher
Fisher addresses capitalism most in his writing and his understanding of the end of capitalism is better than just about anyone I’ve encountered. The concept that machines can cause uneasiness in me, a fear of what are we doing in this space, and why are we doing it is coming more and more these days. The book “How to Blow up a Pipeline” by Andreas Malm addresses our responsibility for destroying these machines and the mechanisms of production that are accelerating our extinction. More from that later.