We looked for artifacts, memories, sensings, and unravelings; a different body for an archive of past projects. And, of course, we sense that ten is an entity that absolutely refuses to be defined by what it has accomplished – what was left imprinted on the negative space of the planned, sketched, and intended pas ten offerings?
It’s not crucial whether the project “came to fruition” or not – we see each humble experiment as a learning circle; it doesn’t have to have been an offering that gestated publically or that “arrived” on the shores of success.
The Meaning of Prophecy is to Look Again
The Meaning of Prophecy is to Look Again [Báyò Akómoláfé, Ph.D.] The work of prophecy is to look again, to scavenge the mushy surfaces of celestial-mundane collisions for rare ways of speaking, seeing, and politicking. What will we find when we look, when we...
Reflections on The Wilds Beyond Climate Justice from the Organizers
The Wilds Beyond Climate Justice [ten artifacts] The Wilds Beyond Climate Justice: A gathering at the end of hope was an experimental online event to engage in different activities, actions, and conversations that evade Western logic as it defines rational climate...
Be a Good Host
Be a Good Host [Toni Spencer] Welcome monsters, the fuck ups, the loneliness, the judgements. The growling, the grieving and the fears. Welcome the monsters. Slowly, let them find the seat they like. It may be your favourite chair, your lap, or that space behind the...
The Allegory of the Pit: Or the Irony of Victory
The Allegory of the Pit:Or the Irony of Victory [Báyò Akómoláfé, Ph.D.] Plato simply couldn’t bring himself to trust our error-prone, undependable, and unfiltered biases and opinions to tackle the sublime questions regarding meaning, justice, truth and beauty....
The Wolf Tone
The Wolf Tone [Jiordi Rosales] The perceived howl is in fact, the sound of their absence – it is the sound of the frequencies to either side of where the wolf tone would have been, running into one another, suddenly with no one in between to separate them but a ghost....
What Climate Collapse Asks of Us
What Climate Colapse Asks of Us [Báyò Akómoláfé, Ph.D.] In this (very) long essay, Báyò Akómoláfé investigates the work and contributions of “postactivism” in our unique times by thinking about the nature of science and its products, climate change, the myriad...
Courting the Other/wise
Vulture [ten artifacts] Vulture offered participants a different shape of hope: hope not in solutions or saviours but in the smell of soil, the migration of birds, and the intense beauty of seeing each other dance at the edge of things. Vulture was an on and off-line...