Snow balls with catastrophies!? And why not!
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In a neoliberal capitalist economy, there's no incentive for corporations to clean up their act, which means as a planet, we are fogged. She sighed and put down the globe. I don't want to make these anymore, she said. I just decided this is the last one. How come? It's just more stuff, more junk cluttering up the world. The B man says we have to learn to love our trash and find poetry in it. And that's true
I can't resist reading on because the sequel is really good. Benny thought about this. He didn't think her Globes were crap. He thought they were beautiful. How can you be an artist if you don't make stuff? Good question. She stood and put the globe on the rack. Maybe it's time for artists to get out of the studio and move into the streets. I want to focus more on making, on direct action, on intervention
The blue marble became a symbol of the environmental movement and caused a profound shift in the way people conceived of the planet, shrinking it from something incomprehensibly immense and awesome into a fragile, lonely awe. But that you could cradle in the palm of your hand or crush beneath a careless heel. Even as the blue marble was miniaturizing your conception of Earth, it was inflating your sense of importance in relation to it endowing. You got, like perspective, an agency
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