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Compost Reader vol. I
From Cthulhu Books, we think of the world to come as a great Compost. Composting as our new relational ontology, as our earthly condition. Composting makes us a single planetary material (humans, beings, objects, technologies). It is the past and it is the future. It is space, place and it is matter. It is a world as a whole rather than as composed of separate natural and social realms, where there are rituals of celebration, entanglements, and interrelationships. To institute means to begin – cultivating consciousness from questions rather than from answers, from uncertainty and doubt. This book speaks about beginnings, about new relationships, about unstable modes of doing, thinking, and being, letting questions spawn new questions.
Tongues as long as branches, cockroaches in a ‘hot-history’, the revival of extinct plants, pre-patriarchal paranthropology, thinking with toxic plants in contemporary art, digestive ontologies in a spiral, capitalist bruxism, a business school run by eukaryotes, a society where we pay to eat celebrities, a chumbo, and 800g of bonisto tuna fish are some of the matters fermenting in this COMPOST READER.
Tongues as long as branches, cockroaches in a ‘hot-history’, the revival of extinct plants, pre-patriarchal paranthropology, thinking with toxic plants in contemporary art, digestive ontologies in a spiral, capitalist bruxism, a business school run by eukaryotes, a society where we pay to eat celebrities, a chumbo, and 800g of bonisto tuna fish are some of the matters fermenting in this COMPOST READER.
Authors:
Claudia González
Adrian Schindler and Eulàlia Rovira
Gerard Ortín
Jonathon Keats
Marianne Hoffmeister
Yamil Leonardi
Ricardo Quesada
Sonia Fernández Pan
Azucena Castro
Mónica Mays
Michael Wang
Lucrecia Masson
Editor:
Yuri Tuma
Elena Brea
Julia Fernandez-Plaza
Gabriel Alonso
Editorial Assistants:
Pablo Ferreira Navone
Karol Muñozcano
Editorial design:
Otro Bureau
Matteo Guarnaccia
Language:
Texts in English and Spanish but not translated
Binding:
Softcover
Paper:
Cover: Materica Gesso 250g
Inside: Munken print white 90g
Printed:
April 2022
Claudia González
Adrian Schindler and Eulàlia Rovira
Gerard Ortín
Jonathon Keats
Marianne Hoffmeister
Yamil Leonardi
Ricardo Quesada
Sonia Fernández Pan
Azucena Castro
Mónica Mays
Michael Wang
Lucrecia Masson
Editor:
Yuri Tuma
Elena Brea
Julia Fernandez-Plaza
Gabriel Alonso
Editorial Assistants:
Pablo Ferreira Navone
Karol Muñozcano
Editorial design:
Otro Bureau
Matteo Guarnaccia
Language:
Texts in English and Spanish but not translated
Binding:
Softcover
Paper:
Cover: Materica Gesso 250g
Inside: Munken print white 90g
Printed:
April 2022
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ISBN: 9788409333585
Dimentions: 21 x 15 cm, 250g.
Pages: 155 p.
