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Pocket 9: Tender ruins

What can be foraged in postdigital ruins?

Que peut-on glaner dans les ruines post-numériques ?

Close your eyes.

“Perhaps all that is left of the world is a wasteland covered with rubbish heaps, and the hanging garden of the Great Khan’s palace. perceptionsIt is our eyelids that separate them…” (Italo Calvino)

## Elise Morin, Mapping the Red Forest from Spring Odyssey (2020). Copyright and courtesy of the artist.

Le soleil caresse ton visage, tandis que les ours polaires s’accrochent aux calottes de glace.

“imagine the possibility of placesa comforting inter-species co-existence in this damaged world.” (Elise Morin Elise Morin, Spring Odyssey, 2018 - 2020. )

Listen.

“Neither tales of progress nor of ruin tell us how to think about collaborative survival. It is time to perceptionspay attention to mushroom picking.” (Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Anna L. Tsing, ‘A look inside The Mushroom at the End of the World‘, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. )

## Sandip Katel, Little Mushrooms World, (2021). Creative Commons license Share Alike 3.0

The earth is caught in your fingernails.

Reading material

Annick Bureaud, ‘More-Than-Planet’, Olats, 2022 - 2025.

Elise Morin, Spring Odyssey, 2018 - 2020.

Anna L. Tsing, ‘A look inside The Mushroom at the End of the World’, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.

Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena and Feifei Zhou, Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene

Angels in America, ‘Belize describes Heaven’, extract from HBO miniseries directed by Mike Nichols, 2003, adapted from the play ‘Angels in America’ by Tony Kushner, 1991.

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