We Are the Weather

Brian Kuan Wood

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Issue #45
May 2013










Notes
1

Thanks to Roni Horn for inspiring the title of this essay with her foundational work from the mid-1990s You Are the Weather.

2

See Dieter Roelstraete’s prescient essay on aesthetics of drift and immersion from 2010 .

3

Has Richard Florida? It seems he did notice. Oops—it was a bubble .

4

See .

5

See the recent writings of Franco “Bifo” Berardi.

6

See .

7

Paulo Virno, Grammar of the Multitude, trans. Isabella Bertoletti, James Cascaito, and Andrea Casson (Los Angeles: Semiotexte, 2004), 31–-2.

8

See the object-oriented ontologists who try to think the unthinkable.

9

See .

10

Hito Steyerl, “In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective,” e-flux journal 24 (April 2011). See .

11

Gianni Vattimo, Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics, and Law (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), 146.

12

Although with climate change, this would actually be a terrible idea.

Thanks to Hito Steyerl.