A collection of fragments and quotes
With afloat, we continuously reflect on endings: what they signify, our vulnerability to them, the inherent injustices of our comfortable existence on this planet, the embodiment of our fleshy reality, and how we mourn. This ongoing contemplation of the boundaries of our mortality has led us to collect fragments of text, ideas from various thinkers, and some images.
adrienne maree brown, emergent strategy – shapint change, changing worlds, 2017
adrienne maree brown, emergent strategy – shaping change, changing worlds, 2017
Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Matters of Care – Speculative Ethics in more than human Worlds, 2017
Bernadette Mayer, Midwinter Day, 1999
Mark Bould, The Anthropocene Unconscious. Climate Catastrophe Culture, 2021
Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, 2016
Anne Boyer, The Heavy Air – Capitalism and its affronts to common sense, 2020
Miranda July, All Fours, 2024
Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan, Nils Bubandt, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene, 2017
N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season – Every Age Must Come to An End, 2015
Patricia Marx. Bunker Mentality, Shopping for a home at the end of the world. August 2024, The New Yorker.