SANDHU, Sukhdev; STRATMAN, Deborah
Geologic Listening

“To touch stone is to encounter alien duration,” says Stratman. To be stoned is to abdicate from consensual reality. Geology forces us to wrench ourselves away from the myopia of presentism, and to become time travelers…who fall to Earth. It makes disciplines such as history and geography seem coltish and jejune; the humanities are left looking fresh-faced, presumptuous.
—Sukhdev Sandhu

Author Sukhdev Sandhu and filmmaker Deborah Stratman explore critical debates around the Anthropocene, monumentality, and the politics of audibility by turning to geology as an experimental pedagogy and an archive. Drawing on speculative fiction and forensic non-fiction, contributors extend Stratman’s long standing engagement with the politics of landscape and, collectively, ask, How can we begin to formulate a progressive politics—or even a vision of the future—by listening to the Earth? [publisher's note]

Published by UnionDocs, 2024
Ecology / Essays / Film & Video