…in the first photo of the triptych the young man is still alive. Can you see his eyes? He doesn’t have long. … His black body is shining and radiantly serpentine at the base of a tree. His skin is glistening, and his musculature is as chiseled and defined as

– photo Robert Shults, from the series The Washing Away of Wrongs Allison Meier: “clothing and personal items from suspected migrants found on the US-Mexico border” (at Hyperallergic) – photo Robert Shults, from the series The Washing Away of Wrongs Allison Meier: “with flowers from a nearby tree fallen across a

– 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

…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