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The Ahuman Spectator: Art, Activism, Anthropocene and Apocalypse

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posted on 2024-04-10, 15:15 authored by Patricia MacCormack

I am convinced that the contemporary 15 minutes of fame is 15 minutes of hate. 15 minutes of death threats. Even more ephemeral due to the incitement by keyboard warriors. In January 2020, I published The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene (Bloomsbury). The manifesto culminated many ideas I had been working with (in partnership, as a magickal working, as activism) as a call to action for radical compassion compelled by art. It advocates everything from cannibalism and necrophilia (clearly cinematically inspired but nonetheless ethically interrogated) to the more mundane but ethical abolitionist veganism and antinatalism...

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46

Publication title

Screening the Past

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1328-9756

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