︎ Life and Death in the Kinocene


Aug 20, 2022


"All that we recognize as truth is necessarily linked to the error represented by the ‘stationary earth,” wrote George Bataille. Today, unprecedented increases in the earth’s unpredictable mobility prompt us to reconsider all our planetary paradigms. Most people are accustomed to treating the earth as a relatively stable place that they live on and move on. Today, however, this stable ground is becoming increasingly unstable— for some of us more than others. Due to the widespread use of global transportation technologies, for example, there are now more people and things on the move than ever before in history. Vast amounts of materials are in constant circulation as billions of humans ship plants, animals, and technologies around the world. More than half the world’s plant and animal species have now been forced into migration due to climate change. This is what I call the “Kinocene.”


(Thomas Nail)