HUMILITAS
the humility of slate
research
I am fascinated by the traces left by time on matter. Tectonic and metamorphic processes, thermodynamic and kinetic changes (changes in temperature and through motion). Instants in the flow of time fixed in form. Alterations in chemical structure.
I'm not, nor do I aspire to be, a geologist. For me, these images carry existential meaning. Faced with these immemorial geologies we become small, lucidly aware of our contingency, our finitude.
salto metafisico
Short Bibliography
Chakrabarti, Dipesh. The Climate of History in a Planetary Age. University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Demos, T. J. Against the Anthropocene: visual culture and environment today. Berlin: Stenberg Press, 2017.
Heidegger, Martin. “What is Metaphysics?". Basic Writings from ‘Being and Time’ (1927) to ‘The Task of Thinking’ (1964). Ed. David Farrel Krell, trans. Albert Hofstadter. New York: HarperCollins, 1993, 93-110.
Heidegger, Martin. Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event). Trans. Richard Rojcewicz and Daniela Vallega-Neu, IndianaUniversity Press, 2012.
Toadvine, Ted. Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Nature, Northwestern University Press, 2009.
Wichert, Jörn. Slate as Dimension Stone: Origins, Standards, Properties, Mining and Deposits, Springer Mineralogy, 2020.
Wood, David. Deep Time - Dark Times: on Being Geologically Human, Fordham University Press, 2019.
Zalasiewicz, Jan. “The Extraordinary Strata of the Anthropocene”. Nature and Value, ed. Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University Press, 2020, 29-45.
On slate (from my talk) Earth, slate, mud. Philosophical musings. concept text.
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