…in these difficult times, these trying, confounding, demanding times, extraordinary, excessive, these dangerous, overwhelming, vertiginous, abject, transcendent, these, immanent, epochal, catastrophic, times, these difficult, in these trying times.
— 😷 hugo reinert (@metaleptic) July 26, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1287367525957869570)
hope someone out there is doing ethnographic work on mask refusal. I’d like an empirical account of what it’s about.
— 😷 hugo reinert (@metaleptic) June 18, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1273688945969303559)
two months of direct, viral instruction in the illusory unreality of the autonomous, self-contained, independent western individual. no wonder americans are losing their minds.
— 😷 hugo reinert (@metaleptic) May 12, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1260105703454277632)
I suppose one of the things this makes obvious is a collective inability to conceptualise, or narrate, the reality of a chronic, durational, massively distributed and avoidable catastrophic death event.
— 😷 hugo reinert (@metaleptic) May 6, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1257997230377766912)
stigmatise the productive.
— 😷 hugo reinert (@metaleptic) April 27, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1254709728267075584)
I’ve hardly left the flat for weeks but days are a series of staggered, overlapping meetings. like being haunted by a large cohort of polite, well-organised ghosts.
— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) April 3, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1245970635349688320)
all the things that need to end, and whether we’ll finally end them.
— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) March 25, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1242733023201767425)
a lawyer holds up the founding texts of international law, a span of four centuries. “these,” he says, “these are books of the holocene.”
— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) September 25, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1176812692297977857)
“how do you write a eulogy for a glacier?” striking, closes with a figure of time that I hadn’t come across before.https://t.co/NmqJqhmkw2
— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) August 14, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1161548140236988416)
vast blue skies, horizon like a sharp straight line cut across and everything else far away, below the fold.
— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) July 19, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1152222698174631938)
randomly walking the city for hours like you’re tracing a sigil, anchoring yourself, it sort of works.
— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) June 27, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1144124597425639424)
disorienting after so many years to watch the general public finally begin to absorb the full extent of the catastrophe.
— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) May 31, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1134493223047630850)
stark metallic brightness of the sky. pic.twitter.com/5wLoWcq4X0
— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) May 25, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1132332726332342272)
that point in the arc of the solution to a problem where the only way forward is to wrap up, liquefy your organs, form a new body.
— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) May 1, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1123583939875082240)
consensus seems to be it was pretty epic. gay penguins, afrofuturism, eugenics, john locke, CRISPR, radioactive glass, skiing, pachamama, witchcraft, the plasticene, biopiracy, feral camels, space photography, xenofeminism, amazonian dark earth and somehow, it made sense.
— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) April 11, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1116328624062455808)
clouds workshop day two, wonderfully rich offerings: desert poetry and balloon expeditions, contrail art, ice-cream artillery, lightning guns. the #intheclouds hashtag has a snapshot.
— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) January 25, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1088909184203177986)
tropical ghost fortress airport.
— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) January 21, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1087422791224197120)
you, oxygen-breathing intellectual: for the first time, in the Anthropocene, an organism is transforming its own planetary environment.
— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) January 22, 2019
me, early earth anaerobic heterotroph: fOr thE fIrsT tiMe, iN tHe anThRopOcenE, aN orGaNisM is tRanSfOrmIng iTs oWn pLanEtaRy eNviRoNMenT.
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1087517730020839425)
hot take: “spark your joy” with the realization that objects do not exist, and neither do you.
— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) January 14, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1084958142134312960)
then again it is also true that flights account for a small fraction of climate gas emissions while individualizing guilt is a paralyzing control mechanism of neoliberal governmentality, operating to protect vested interests and prevent systemic revolt by making you eat yourself.
— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) December 10, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1071989345366695936)
the collapse is happening at a speed that overtakes writing, neutralizes it.
— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) December 3, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1069438043730264064)
thread on companion species. https://t.co/rXFyLp68ga
— hugo reinert (@metaleptic) June 5, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/metaleptic/status/1003890716509200386)