At The End of the World, Plant a Tree

Incite Seminars

If the hellish events of 2020 left you feeling like the first stirrings of apocalypse are at long last come upon us, you clearly aren't alone. But just what do we do with ourselves, here at the end of all things? What happens to us — psychically, emotionally, socially, politically — when we accept and internalize that events capable of ending human civilization as we've known it have already taken place, and that all we're doing now is waiting for them to unfold in their fullest consequence?We'll be touring some of the most common responses to this understanding — including the turn toward reactionary blood-and-soil nativism, the false comfort of left accelerationism, and the newly hegemonic rhetoric of "resilience" — before exploring what qualities might actually serve us best, as individuals and collectivities, as the epoch on which we've predicated our entire sense of being draws to its inevitable close.By developing the notion that there are capacities to which we have permanent recourse, no matter what else happens, this conversation will hopefully leave you feeling able to face the gathering darkness with grace and equanimity. And, hey, if the apocalypse fails to arrive on time, at least you'll have a bunch of clever new things to say at parties.Readings:<ul><li><a href="https://inciteseminarscom.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/at_the_end_libreria_final.pdf" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">At The End of the World, Plant a Tree</a> </li><li><a href="http://lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Deep Adaptation</a></li><li><a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/faulty-science-doomism-and-flawed-conclusions-deep-adaptation/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Faulty Science, Doomism and Flawed Conclusions</a></li></ul>Facilitator: Adam Greenfield. Formerly a rock critic, bike messenger, PSYOP sergeant in the US Army, and head of design direction for service and user interface at Nokia, among other things, Adam Greenfield currently thinks of himself as a writer and urbanist. His most recent book is Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life (Verso, 2017).

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