The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?

Peter Galison: Memorializing Nuclear Waste

Hilla Becher

2210: The Collapse?

Leviathan (2012)

Leviathan Trailer July 2012 from Sensory Ethnography Lab on Vimeo.

Lee Ann Schmitt, California Company Town (2008)

California Company Town from Lee Anne Schmitt on Vimeo.

Journey to the Hollow Earth

Robin de Goede, Ruin Value

RUIN VALUE from robindegoede on Vimeo.

Thanks to John Armitage for spotting this.

Isao Hashimoto, Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945

Thanks to Ian Thompson for this one.

Newcastle University Architecture, Planning and Landscape Lecture Series

Watch the lectures on vimeo.

David Schlosberg
William Rees
Eric Parry
Tony King
Anna Minton
Owen Hatherley
Matthew Gandy
Ian Boal
Ananya Roy
Nezar Alsayyad

Wurlitzer 4: Candy Mountain

Wurlitzer 3: Reads from Nog

Wurlitzer 2: Two Lane Blacktop

Wurlitzer 1: William Walker

 

 

• T.J. Stiles, 'The Filibuster King: The Strange Career of William Walker, the Most Dangerous International Criminal of the Nineteenth Century'
• Brady Harrison, Agent of Empire: William Walker and the Imperial Self in American Literature (2004)
• William Walker, The War in Nicaragua (1860) [Google books]

Universal

More on The Last Pictures

Trevor Paglen - The Last Pictures from Creative Time on Vimeo.

Last Pictures Orbit Visualization from Trevor Paglen on Vimeo.

TIME article
Walker Art Center article
e-flux interview

History of Orford Ness

Jane and Louise Wilson

Cosmic Futures

Gregory Benford website
David Brin website
John Smart website

Steven J. Dick and Mark L. Lupisella, eds., Cosmos & Culture: Cultural Evolution in a Cosmic Context (NASA 2009) [PDF]

The World, the Flesh and the Devil

J.D. Bernal, The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul (1929)

Bannerman's Castle

Bannerman's Castle is an abandoned milary surplus warehouse on the Hudson River 50 miles north of New York City and easily spotted from the commuter train from Poughkeepsie. Like a future ruin of West Point, also to be seen on this route.

BLDGBLOG: Bannerman's Island
Shaun O'Boyle
Bannerman Castle Trust

Hashima Island

Article in Cabinet magazine.
'Battleship Island' from Vice magazine.

Waste Land

WASTE LAND Official Trailer from Almega Projects on Vimeo.

Native Land, Stop Eject

"Native Land, Stop Eject" Copenhagen, December ... by FondationCartier

Life After People: The Crypt of Civilization

Life After People

Aftermath: Population Zero

End Day

The Art of Dissent

Your companion to the closing ceremony.
The Art of Dissent website

Kelly Richardson, Mariner 9

Kelly Richardson website

Swandown

Swandown Artefacts
Swandown website

London -- The Modern Babylon

On July 16th 2012 the BBC decided not to screen Julien Temple’s latest documentary, London - The Modern Babylon, which had been scheduled as part of a season of films about the capital in the run up to the Olympic Games. The film, pieced together from footage from the British Film Institute archives, is an attempt to articulate a century of London life up to and including the 2011 riots. One scene culled from British gangster film The Long Good Friday (1980) imagines a UK Olympic bid for the derelict Docklands area. Whether the BBC decided that images of looting and street-fighting were not the best way to represent London days before the Olympic torch reached the city is unclear, though the broadcaster might have blanched after British Airways thought using The Clash’s London Calling for the soundtrack to an upbeat Olympic themed TV commercial was a good idea: ice age, heat death, famine, nuclear error, zombies of death. Here the apocalyptic punk imaginary returns to haunt an affirmative display of corporate engineering designed, presumably, to celebrate British efficiency and London as a global destination. The sheer wrongness of the soundtrack is a thrilling act of self-immolation at least as pointed as anything Temple has assembled and also opens up a dream-space where punk nostalgia refuses to capitulate to the restorative logic of the heritage sector and insinuates itself instead into the marketing DNA of the corporation as a mode of auto-détournement.

Is This a Joke?

It's all gone quiet regarding the actual content of Boyle's opening ceremony, overshadowed as it is by the cock-ups over security. Recent aerial photographs show a scene that looks like the opening of Eastenders. Still, the question remains: is it a joke or is it really that bad?

Simon Jenkins in The Guardian smelled a rat.

Dr Feelgood

Carl Sagan, Terraformer

The Cold Coast Archive

Signe Lidén (Norway), Annesofie Norn (Denmark), and Steve Rowell (USA). Information at the Center for Postnatural History

Trevor Paglen, The Last Pictures

See the Creative Time press release.

Brian Holmes

There was a video here but I can't remember what it was.

Brian Holmes' blog

Robert Macfarlane on Orford Ness

Will Self and Macfarlane on Orford Ness in The Big Issue. Will it never end?

London Bikers 1973

The Outcasts (1985): Norfolk Bikers

Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica, Videograms of a Revolution

The overthrow of Ceausescu in 1989: over 125 hours of footage compiled by Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica.

Stanley Fish on GeoHumanities

From the New York Times
Routledge: GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place

Zombie Theme World Detroit

Ian Nairn

Test Site

Test Site - trailer from Solarisfilm on Vimeo.

New documentary. Strapline: LOVE, SURVIVAL, MYTH, RITUAL, MUSIC, SPEED AND DEATH IN THE NORTH AMERICAN DESERT
Website

Forensic Aesthetics

Jananne Al-Ani

The Aesthetics of Disappearance: A Land Without People - Jananne Al-Ani from Sharjah Art Foundation on Vimeo.

Till Roeskens

Atomic Filmmakers

Michael Heizer

LACMA

Allan Sekula

Michael Light

Mike Kelley, Mobile Homestead

Mike Kelley, Mobile Homestead

Artangel website

Hour of the Furnaces (1968)

Mona Hatoum



Coastal Conversations

AHRC Landscape and Environment

Burn (2012)

Burn website

Deforce (2012)

New York Times: A Battered City, Through Local Lenses

MOUT

Junktopia (1981)

Bruce Nauman

Ice Cube Loves LA

There was a video for this but it's gone.

The Last Man on Earth (1964)

Emily Richardson



Emily Richardson, UK: “Petrolia” (Still), 16mm film, 2005

• Excerpt of Memo Mori on Youtube
• Emily Richardson website
• Richardson's Cobra Mist [on Orford Ness]

Chihiro Minato and Masao Okabe

Sophie Ristelhueber

Sophie Ristelhueber from Laure Vermeersch on Vimeo.

Overlord

Winstanley

Go to the Internet Archive.

It Happened Here

Ghost Ship

A Japanese fishing vessel swept away by the March 2011 tsunami has been spotted adrift off the west coast of Canada.

Bashir Makhoul

Shai Kremer

Mark Ruwedel

Small Wars

Steichen at War

Virtuous War

Trailer for 'Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-Industrial Media Entertainment Network' by James Der Derian.

Disastrous Horizons

This video connects the parrallel developments of networked warfare, post-industrialization and virtual accidents. The title "Disastrous Horizons" is inspired by Paul Virilio's 'Museum of Accidents' and the video was presented at the symposium exploring the work of Paul Virilio,'Trajectories of the Catastrophic', on Friday, Oct. 24th 2008 at City Lights in San Francisco. The video is written and directed by: Phillip Gara and James Der Derian

Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, Swamp (1971)

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us

Fresh Kills, Then and Now

Gordon Matta-Clark, Fresh Kill (1972)

Either you must do something, or something must be done to you

Bombay Beach (2012)

Detropia (2012)

Campbell's Factory Demolition

Must be the time of the season for getting rid of iconic East Anglian landmarks.

The empty Campbell’s factory in King's Lynn is currently being demolished with its iconic tower due to be taken down next month to make way for a business complex including a new Tesco Extra store.

• Nothing To See Here: Campbell's Tower, King's Lynn
• Demolition starts at former Campbell’s food factory in King’s Lynn

On the Jetty

Eastern Daily Press story Monday 9 Jan 2012
BBC

The demolition of the jetty used by Nelson in Great Yarmouth is now underway.

John Constable, Yarmouth Jetty (after 1823)

John Crome the Elder, Yarmouth Jetty