4.D. Techtonic Subversion

Greetings from Pangea. Considering future publics, we suggest releasing the chronocentric grip of the current land mass classifications. Instead, bear unreliable witness to tectonics as the slow and malevolent choreography bleeding a situational opera. Rewild in time-lapse photography.

Glacial pace may describe two very different rates of speed. The grandiose inching reveals the pettiness of our competing landscapes: the configurations of rural consciousness perpetuating agrarian disparities, high-density consumption centers in rat-nest neon, fearmongered cut grass suburban land banking. It is at least partly an American thing. An unending lending scheme, federalized advantages for participation, persistent price escalation, and fluctuating value due to allowed market manipulation. The relocating of people in the age of bad weather and the continued aggressive demographic pruning prove the Anthropocene has begun.

The new new media in its brown distortion, diagonals laid horizontally flat falsifying geoids – 42 400 a deep 90s hope sensibility – solar dentures for the gummy gap-toothed peripheries spilling curious locality. The World’s Tallest Man in the Room debates The Human Calculator, who does not deny his fallibility but insists that he is as accurate as necessary. John Locke crying over spilled milk. Are we building for single-use and single users and calling it multipurpose in its colocation? We build for the box, imagining each room as a seed for new narratives, and cross-spectral relationships. What about the box and its abstraction? Weak-kneed myths lampoon our disinterest to the point of questioning that brings about a divorced self.

Disaster capitalism and surveillance superego are new flavors of the lurk. Previously fueled by fossils for the collection of gold and watts, now stunt double bets on short-falling misfortune. Borders and boundaries, invisible lines stretched heroically foolish and policed like a division of tantamount providence. While these realities are offensive and catastrophically genocidal, they are trivialities against the backdrop of continental shelves folding in and spitting magma. As we battle over these petty geopolitical idiosyncrasies, Iceland is still being born.