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By: Making the Geologic Now « FOP

Making the Geologic Now « FOP — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 15:39:26 +0000

[...] Eighteen months after we first announced the call, via this blog, we’re ready to announce that our co-edited collection of essays, Making the Geologic Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life will be released by Punctum Books later this fall. We have designed this book in the tradition of a broadside or pamphlet—a timely “calling out” of a shift in cultural sensibility and practice. Its publication by Punctum Books as downloadable file, bound book, and interactive website will make it readily and widely accessible, portable, and easily shared and exchanged. We hope that these forms will encourage it to move through culture the way a “geologic turn” is now propagating through contemporary consciousness and practice. [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:10:08 +0000

An interesting variant of the cognitive blinkers created by anthropomorphising things that we look at, is the commonly heard view that goes something like… “the universe is so vast, therefore we are insignificant”. Why the presumption that ‘size’ correlates with ‘meaning’? is an elephant more meaningful than a bee?

By: The Geologic Turn: Architecture’s New Alliance « FOP

The Geologic Turn: Architecture’s New Alliance « FOP — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:50:02 +0000

[...] life. We’ve written about this geologic turn quite frequently on this blog, including here and [...]

By: From the Edge of an Epoch: Extinct Lakes Redux « FOP

From the Edge of an Epoch: Extinct Lakes Redux « FOP — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:21:08 +0000

[...] of rebirth, retreat or extinction, brought new clarity to the way we’ve been thinking about a geologic turn in contemporary culture, and our ongoing projects related to geologic [...]

By: Shop Around Blog » Part 1: Sighting a geologic turn at the 2011 Art + Environment Conference

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 04:19:02 +0000

[...] a “geologic turn.” We looked and listened for evidence to support a hunch: that a turn is taking place—a turn toward the geologic as a source of information, explanation, inspiration, and [...]

By: Geology Links for March 1st, 2011 | The Geology News Blog

Geology Links for March 1st, 2011 | The Geology News Blog — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:01:45 +0000

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By: Steven Siegel

Steven Siegel — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:03:57 +0000

I have been thinking like this for 35 years, and producing the visual work to go along with it. A perusal of my web site might be a good idea. In addition to the visuals, there is some interesting reading material. http://www.stevensiegel.net

Here is a review of my current exhibition at Marlborough Chelsea in NY: http://www.artsjournal.com/artopia/2011/02/steven_siegel_the_sculptor_fro.html

A formal paper would not be in order, but if you are interested in doing some kind of visual essay please let me know.

Regards,

Steven Siegel

By: Long Term Engagement: The Center for Art + Environment « Friends of the Pleistocene

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:53:44 +0000

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By: Urban Omnibus » The Omnibus Roundup – Infrastructure, Railways, Parking Apps, Brownfield Fail and Calls for Submissions

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:14:04 +0000

[...] FOR SUBMISSIONS Friends of the Pleistocene (authors of “Geologic City”) are looking for brief writings and visual essays [...]

By: geologic city – mammoth // building nothing out of something

geologic city – mammoth // building nothing out of something — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:03:35 +0000

[...] as that interest is expressed in art and design. Abstracts are due on 1 March; you can read the full call at Friends of the [...]

By: Food for Thinkers: takes a geologic turn « Friends of the Pleistocene

Food for Thinkers: takes a geologic turn « Friends of the Pleistocene — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:21:38 +0000

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By: Geology Links for January 18th, 2011 | The Geology News Blog

Geology Links for January 18th, 2011 | The Geology News Blog — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:01:17 +0000

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By: Geology Links for January 16th, 2011 | The Geology News Blog

Geology Links for January 16th, 2011 | The Geology News Blog — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:01:12 +0000

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By: BJN

BJN — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:24:24 +0000

Piquing interest.

I don’t think we’re “growing” abilities to sense deep time. Understanding it is very different than having a visceral sense for it. Deep time is no more comprehensible to human scale and experience than are invisible dimensions, atomic scale, or the size of the expanding universe. For me at least, all of the above give me butterflies in my stomach akin to standing at the edge of a cliff. I think the best our species can manage is to shudder at the vastness of what we can’t fully comprehend.