Olga Bubich shared the essay dedicated to the relationship of memory and nature — how can the present be recorded and stored by non-human agents? Intertwining together personal family history of deportation and forced labor during World War II, megalomaniac terraforming projects of Nazi leadership, and criticism of Anthropocene, Olga sheds light on the often overlooked role that nature plays in wars and heinous crimes —as well as in keeping memory of them.
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On Memory Landscapes
In which way does memory work? Who (or what) possesses the ability of forming and storing recollections? If nature can remember, what is it that we, humans, can learn from and about it?