– photo: Francesco Salerno inscription on the sculpture (left strut) reads, Me, a beautiful image made Aninis for King Nevio Pompuledio. first known dedication to an artist. (from here)

While the idea of ‘utopia’ appears naive and even hysterical under capitalist realism, the pathologization and irrationalization of anti-capitalist longing presents an enduring threat. In the face of the hard-right global turn, these problems must come to the foreground of our struggles. the weird and the eerie …the weird is

…an STI@home (Search for Terrestrial Intelligence modelled on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence at home) initiative could propose to participate in the creation of a network of detectors and amplifiers of human intelligence, capable of revealing the mechanisms of our stupidity, and of neutralizing them. It goes without saying

[Verse 1: Benjamin Clementine] Here is our tree That primitively grows And when you go to bed Scarecrows from the far east Come to eat Its tender fruits And I thought the best way to perfect our tree Is by building walls Walls like unicorns In full glory And galore