- New alliances
In this speculative world, all forms of being in the world are guided by the forms of love that are available in an era. In order to transform the ways of engaging in the world, forms of love and forms of care that are available need to transform as well. We enter this narrative where the modes of being in the world that privilege politics over science, productivity over accountability, the short-term over the long term, direct and economic impacts over holistic impacts and general apathy towards others and their futures are being questioned and made redundant. This reign of excess accumulation is being replaced by a love for multiplicities. Love for multiplicities produces a world in which differences have a space to play out. What is messy does not need to be hidden, or cleaned up under such love ethics. Differences don’t need to be managed and controlled, but rather understood, and celebrated. This world is created by the character Neoros - a cybernetic starfish.
This pataphysical parody speculates that all forms of being in the world are guided by the forms of love that are available in an era. In order to transform the ways of engaging in the world, forms of love and forms of care that are available need to transform as well. It sets the search for answers within a speculative world where the available dimension of love is negotiated by the collective L.O.V.E. that deploys a range of scientific-poetic affects - Erospheres into the world.
This world equates the everyday processes happening in the household, the community, and the planetary scale simultaneously. It acknowledges the axis of care that passes from the individual through its communities that form the city, to the world across planetary changes resulting from individual action. It situates conversations outside the vocabulary produced by the neo-liberal market, and replaces it with an ethos of caring, in favour of a deep movement towards collective mitigation.
The Council of Confabulators deploys Erospheres to modulate the forms of love that are available in specific space-time. The Erosphere that was deployed was the market. This created waves of the free-market economy that permeated all modes of thinking, including climate change and its records. The Council is in session to dethrone Captain Capitalism.
Each Erosphere spawns newer relationships through modulated forms of love that currently determine built ecologies. These relationships include structural mechanisms, institutional relationships, participation rights, access to knowledge and data within the built environment, and allowing critical readings from erstwhile stakeholders.
The Mechanosphere - like in a climate change expo is set up as a parody - brings about the absurdity that gets generated when the conversations about growth, development and well-being are wrapped in only economic vocabulary. This parody will highlight the need to talk about nurture versus control. Post-economic development should reach the last person standing through vertical, diagonal and spiral paths. Well-being must be claimed as rightfully ours, and not something that has to be given.
