The Baby Question
Group Post October 9th Elsie, Meredith, Dani G, Dani D One aspect of our conversation with Les of VHEMT that I find salient is the notion that not having children is resisting capitalism. One [...]
Group 1’s interview questions of Les Knight from VHEMT
Group 1: Armando Dollero, Ousmane Sow, and Oscar Fossum It was a pleasure to have the opportunity to discuss the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT) with its founder Les Knight. In relation to our texts [...]
Describing Death: Linguistic Metaphor, Prognostic Truth-Telling, the Dying, and the Deceased [Week 5, The Terminal Stage: Social Deaths]
The concept of a “social death” is intriguing in that it can be understood in at least two distinct ways. On the one hand, it manifests as the literal death of a society. In other [...]
Ice Art, Melting and Mortality
The myth of Sisyphus is an example of philosophy of the absurd, representing the futility of life that is spent searching for meaning and clarity in a nonsensical world with no universal truths or values. [...]
Bunker Design 9/25
Dani D, Dani G, Meredith, Elsie Design sketches by Dani D -The bunker is sustainable for about 3 months on the mill. After some time it will need maintenance. An extra 3 months of life [...]
Group Post 9/25
Group Post September 25th: Poetics of Social Death Elsie, Dani D, Dani G, Meredith *burials as sites for study of social change Sources: beyond the body: death and social identity Social death: Racialized rightlessness and [...]