Catastrophes and Promises is a book of fragments. It was made from brief words heard during the plenary panel at 4S-EASST 2016 in Barcelona, and written down on torn-out notebook pages. These word fragments have been painstakingly pieced together. They tell their own story, one made from the residues of another time. They make a speculative ethnography, and a future archaeology…
All we know is that these pages include words that may have been spoken by the plenary speakers, Isabelle Stengers, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Martin Savransky, and Lucy Suchman.
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The reconstructed book only exists as a single handmade artefact. This video is a poor attempt to capture its folding texture and experience…
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The artefact has also been digitised and preserved online, where you can attempt to read its words more closely…
