Exhausted - e-flux

Editors Nick Axel, Cooking Sections, Nikolaus Hirsch

Contributors Elizabeth Hoover, Onur İnal, Rami Zurayk, Sharmila Rudrappa, Calvin Po, Rickie Solinger

Over millennia human productivity has been strongly tied to the ability to reproduce: working the land, while raising children. Productivity and reproduction had to grow hand in hand with (forced) agricultural, or later, industrial work. While extractive practices are one of the main drivers to the unprecedented environmental transformation of the planet—most evident in climate change, biodiversity loss, and the emission of greenhouse gases—the bodies that inhabit it, and its soils, are also becoming infertile.

Exhausted is a collaboration between SALT and e-flux Architecture, supported by L’internationale and the Prince Claus Fund.

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7 essays

The Uses and Abuses of Female Reproductive Bodies

Rickie Solinger

For almost all of human history, reproduction was inexorable, unimpeded, and imperative, as well as socially and medically dangerous. Reproduction ref…

Inscribing borders on bodies

Calvin Po

The heraldic symbol of the Red Hand is believed to embody Ulster’s founding legend, in which the first to touch the land in a boat race claims its s…

Famines, Fertility Interventions, and Death: Modernization Projects in Southern India

Sharmila Rudrappa

“Akka,” Umesh began, making eye contact through the rearview mirror as he expertly chauffeured the car down the highway, and I sat in the back sea…

The writing on the walls: Adonis, Ishtar and the terraces of Mount Lebanon

Rami Zurayk

The In/Fertile Crescent From the delta of the Tigris-Euphrates to the valley of the Jordan river, curving around the Great Syrian Desert and passing …

Nourishing the Soil, Feeding the Nation

Onur İnal

Soil is the basis of life and a symbol of fertility. It has played a crucial role in history, giving birth to and fostered a variety of cultures and c…

Protecting Our Living Relatives: Environmental Reproductive Justice and Seed Rematriation

Elizabeth Hoover

For many Native American communities, understandings of family, fertility, and “collective continuance” are closely rooted to the protection, pres…

Editorial

Nick Axel, Cooking Sections, and Nikolaus Hirsch

Exhausted is a collaboration between SALT and e-flux Architecture within the context of CLIMAVORE: Seasons Made to Drift, a new solo exhibition by Coo…

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Motherhood and Reproduction, Reproductive Justice, Family, Community

Exhausted is a collaboration between SALT and e-flux Architecture, supported by L’internationale and the Prince Claus Fund.

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Nick Axel, Cooking Sections, and Nikolaus Hirsch Editorial
Elizabeth Hoover Protecting Our Living Relatives: Environmental Reproductive Justice and Seed Rematriation
Onur İnal Nourishing the Soil, Feeding the Nation
Rami Zurayk The writing on the walls: Adonis, Ishtar and the terraces of Mount Lebanon
Sharmila Rudrappa Famines, Fertility Interventions, and Death: Modernization Projects in Southern India
Calvin Po Inscribing borders on bodies
Rickie Solinger The Uses and Abuses of Female Reproductive Bodies

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