Some links to things that we talked about with each of you in class today:

John Oliver on Food Waste

Janine Antoni - Loving Care

Kader Attia

Francis Mallmann

Recovery of Discovery - Cyprien Gaillard

Alan Berliner - Audiofile

Roman Signer

Miranda July - It Chooses You

Fritz Haeg - Rug

Paul Ramirez Jonas - Key to the City

Paul McCarthy - Painter

The Challenge of Consciousness

An interview between Riccardo Manzotti and Tim Parks

Discussion on the physiological, psychological, and metaphysical concepts of consciousness, identity, and present awareness of the world, (at least that's what I got from it).

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Interesting excerpt, out of context, as applied to the idea of consciousness (and therein, I believe, identity) being understood as a physical manifestation:

Parks: But again, should we be thinking of consciousness as a thing, or a process?
Manzotti: Well, if the world that surrounds us is made of things, objects, and physical processes, consciousness is likely to be one of them. People tend to be extremely hesitant when approaching consciousness and to treat it as a special case. But I’m not sure that’s helpful. If it is a real phenomenon, and most people agree that it is, why shouldn’t it be like all other physical phenomena, something made of matter and energy whose activity is explicable by its physical properties?

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Perhaps a bit off the rails from materiality and our current discussions, but I think it's something to consider when approaching the idea of how we, as human beings with consciousness and awareness, perceive material itself.

Over-consumerism (Outdated video, but still interesing)

Buy Nothing Day

Some links to some of the stuff brought up during discussion earlier this week. Hope you are all having a nice break.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat - Oliver Sacks

Tylenol Murders

Museum of Broken Relationships

Maintenance Performance

Dead Malls

Protest

City Reliquary Museum

Museum of Jurassic Technology

Abraham Cruzvillegas - Autoconstrucción
Abraham Cruzvillegas

Dorodango

Comments for reading: "The Force of Things" from Vibrant Matter by Jane Bennett

Reading Comments for "Shopping: A Century of Art and Consumer Culture"

Video of Claes Oldenburg's "Mouse Museum" here and here