Sep 26 - Research Sabbatical
I've been awarded a UAL Research Sabbatical this term so I will be on a break from teaching and focusing on getting my book finished.
Deep Time Now: Art, Nuclear Waste and Long-Term Future Imaginaries
Intro: Missed Calls to the Future
Ch. 1: Dust Flow and Geo-Fiction: From Marking Site to Tracing Toxic Ecologies
Ch.2: Grounding / Ungrounding: Re-enacting Burial, Nature and the Empty Earth
Ch.3: Half-lives, Scenarios and Intra-acting Scales: Radioactive Deep Time
Ch.4: not sure of title yet, working on this now
Here's a taster of some of the ideas that have developed into the first chapter:
and:
extract of 'Writing as Dust Carrier Test 1'
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//future troposphere; altered continental airmass; new biogeochemical cycles / photochemical smog layer / planetary boundary layer jets / sea-salt–mineral agglomerate; marine splash contact / surf-zone aerosol ribbon / lofted coarse-mode in cliff updraft / katabatic/anabatic cycle on new orogen; seabird wake microturbulence / biofilm-seeded particle (future microbes adsorbed) / airborne microbiome; spore/pollen cloud / nocturnal stable layer; gravity wave train / hygroscopic, approaching deliquescence / surface inversion; cool, moist near-ground sheet//
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