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Toxic Temple

An Artistic and Philosophical Adventure into the Toxicity of the Now
  • Edited by: Anna Lerchbaumer and Kilian Jörg
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2022
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On the toxicity of the immediate

What changes when we religiously worship the toxic? In this era of catastrophe, can a cosmic connection be achieved through a cult of pollution? Toxic Temple is an artistic-philosophical quest to understand the current parlous state of the world.

We offer our inner contradictions and destructive lusts as objects of worship. We enter wastelands instead of new territory, leaving space for artifacts, expressing solidarity with the factual.

We encounter colorful assemblages of things that connect the known cosmos, tread the shaky ground of novel divinity, inhale pungent odors that transport us to the sublime. Garbage dumps are the new temples. In a mania of sadistic composure we breathe in the here and now. Transformative forces are released, free radicals; rituals that expose the chaos that lurks beneath the surface.

  • New transdisciplinary ecosophical approaches
  • Multimedia art project with comprehensive documentation and numerous illustrations
  • With contributions by Julieta Aranda, Heather Davis, Elisabeth Falkensteiner, and Julia Grillmayr, among others

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    Anna Lerchbaumer, sound and video artist, Vienna

    Kilian Jörg, philosopher and artist, Berlin, Vienna, Brussels

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      Frontmatter

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      Contents

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      Einlass / Entry

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      Ecology beyond Numbers

      24
      Kilian Jörg
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      Remembering Wasteland or Why the World Is Out of Joint

      50
      Elisabeth Falkensteiner
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      A Panda a Day Keeps the Sorrow Away

      68
      Anna Lerchbaumer
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      Life and Death in the Anthropocene

      88
      Heather Davis
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      It’s Getting Late to Give You Up—Promising and Problematic Muddy Temporalities, Toxic Alliances, and Bubbly Commitments

      112
      Julia Grillmayr
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      What Kind of (Hi)story Is the End of the World?

      132
      Kilian Jörg
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      Toward a Glossary of the Oceanic Undead: A(mphibious) through F(utures)

      156
      Julieta Aranda and Eben Kirksey
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      Hounding

      176
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      Can One Hear Global Warming in the Hiss of Air Conditioning?

      198
      Anna Lerchbaumer
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      Producing the Afterlife

      212
      Sabrina Bühn, Demi Spriggs and Kilian Jörg
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      Bibliography

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      Biographies

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      IMAGE CREDITS

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      IMPRINT

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    eBook published on:
    April 19, 2022
    eBook ISBN:
    9783110769241
    Hardcover published on:
    May 3, 2022
    Hardcover ISBN:
    9783110769142
    Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
    Main content:
    256
    Coloured Illustrations:
    112
    https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110769241
    eBook ISBN: 9783110769241
    Hardcover ISBN: 9783110769142
    Keywords for this book
    Anthropocene; art; artistic research; media art; philosophy
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    Readers interested in art, media art, artistic research, philosophy, transdisciplinary research
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