“You Make It Hard to Have a Good Time”, ŠUM#12: Threshold Ecologies (Nov 2019)

ŠUM#12: THRESHOLD ECOLOGIES (Nov 2019).
Texts by: Bogna M Konior, Lukáš Likavčan, n1x, Domen Ograjenšek, Germán Sierra.
Edited by: Marko Bauer, Tjaša Pogačar. 

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Adaptation to the Future curated by Aleksandra Vajd and Edith Jerabkova.

Our lizard brain is perhaps protected by its skeletal enclosure, but that does not detach it from the surroundings into which it invests its neural energy. Just like the toxic bodies of our polluted streams permeate our own bodies, defining their flesh with viscous porosity and making them expansive membranes rather than well-rounded self-sufficing entities, so do our affects leave our lizard brain, or better yet, extend it beyond its primary limbic setting. Our emotions and compulsions are not merely a matter of the heart, but are also a matter of dirt and sometimes glitter […]

Access to digital issue: http://sumrevija.si/en/issues/sum-12