All in 300

300 / Part Seven: Transitions, Death, The Ruptures Of Life In Between

300 / Part Seven: Transitions, Death, The Ruptures Of Life In Between

Patrick Farnsworth
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We are meeting a time of many endings. The overly-complex systems that govern modern human life are meeting their inevitable demise. Centuries of human industrial activity has thrown the living systems of the Earth into disarray, and mass extinction ensues. The global climate is beyond repair, with enough heat baked into the system to guarantee several degrees of warming over the next several decades and centuries—a fact that cannot be contested. The question of human extinction is less a matter of "if" but more a matter of "when." If what is happening is happening, how, then, shall we live? 

300 / Part Six: Hungry Ghosts, Unraveling Colonial Bodies

300 / Part Six: Hungry Ghosts, Unraveling Colonial Bodies

Patrick Farnsworth
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Colonization, rupturous, severs the body from its relations, from ancestors and earth. It flattens the diversity of human experience, relying on the multifaceted dynamics of intergenerational trauma to replicate itself, in perpetuity. Like ghosts, these traumas haunt us, hijack us. The line between the abuser and the abused is blurred, trauma compounds, cutting in all directions.

300 / Part Three: Plague Days, Fertile Grounds

300 / Part Three: Plague Days, Fertile Grounds

Patrick Farnsworth
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The fertile grounds that bred a novel, deadly coronavirus and the misinformation that accompanied its spread is our subject. Over the last year-and-a-half since COVID spilled over, and more specifically, when our collective reaction to it began to reshape every aspect of our lives, I conducted numerous interviews to make sense of this thing. 

300 / Part Two: Last Born In Brazil

300 / Part Two: Last Born In Brazil

Patrick Farnsworth
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This section contains reflections on the calamitous realities of Brazil: the uprisings of 2013 and the state of the Left under neofascist Bolsonaro; the Western gaze on the Global South; the spiritual-social-political resistance of the African Diaspora; artistic representation of Indigenous struggle under Capital and the State; the subtle complexities of cultural genocide in Amazonia.

300 / Part One: Mother Earth, In Spite Of Everything

300 / Part One: Mother Earth, In Spite Of Everything

Patrick Farnsworth
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This first part is quite substantial, in and of itself. Weaving together fifteen carefully selected interviews, I present a narrative that conveys one of the most persistent themes of my work: ecological catastrophe, climatological disruption, near-term extinction, ruptures in the life-destroying industrial model, and humanity’s capacity to reclaim our regenerative role—in spite of the outcome.