Urth is a film that explores the themes of environmentalism, artificial intelligence, literature, and history. Shot on location at B2, formerly Biosphere 2, the film reverses the fortunes of the experiment, which has survived while the Earth burns. The film features a lone narrator who remains the involuntary captive of the biosphere, tracing her thoughts through audio logs recorded during her final solitary months in the sealed building. Rivers' work is always framed and rarely offers a direct telling of a story, rather his films parallel and re-enact their material. Urth opens with a prologue quoting from The Last Man by Mary Shelley.

В статье рассматривается связь экономики и окружающей среды, история накопления материальных богатств и отчуждение людей и предметов. Автор указывает на необходимость учитывать взаимные переплетения внутри обитаемого пространства и не сводить экономику к экологии или наоборот.

Speculative Everything is a book that explores the concept of design beyond its traditional understanding. It offers a specific view of design based on experimentation, teaching, and reflection. The book uses examples from various fields, including fine art, design, architecture, cinema, and photography. It discusses the use of design as a critical medium for exploring the implications of new developments in science and technology and ends by exploring the idea of 'speculative everything' and design as a catalyst for social dreaming. The book is intended for designers interested in exploring new ideas and approaches beyond making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable.

Статья рассказывает о том, как метафизика дрона стремится к переключению на трансцеденцию через акселерацию, чтобы застилать напряжения и формы насилия. Внимание к материальному и элементам трудовой власти также является существенным. Акселерационный дискурс трансценденции пытается избежать проблемы, постулируя финальную трансценденцию, которая может перекодировать материальное в безопасную форму. Возврат беспорядочной материальности аналогично пытается спасти материальное в качестве точки сопротивления.

Doubting Thomas is a play on Caravaggio's 'The Incredulity of Saint Thomas'. The man inserts his fingers into the crack in the road as if he does not believe it exists, as Thomas does with Jesus’ wound. The scale of geologic time is beyond his human comprehension, just as Jesus’s resurrection is a divine event beyond Thomas’s human understanding. The article discusses the relationship between the world and the earth, and how the modern human world takes its triumph over the earth as given. Tansey's painting renders the artificial distinction between earth and the human world as absurd.