Rare Earth (original) (raw)

2015, Ondreicka & Samman (eds.), Rare Earth, Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2015.

‘Rare Earth’ challenges the rhetoric of immateriality associated with a post-internet cultural condition, exploring how emergent (artistic) myths, identities and cosmologies issue from advanced applications of material scientific knowledge. It is the lead essay in the edited volume of the same name, featuring seventeen essays by artists, curators and scholars, published to accompany the eponymous exhibition at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (Vienna). The collection bridges the domains of Science Studies, Media Studies, Philosophy and Curatorial Theory while exploring the technologies and attendant cultural and ecological conditions associated with the exploitation of Rare Earth elements. Other contributors include Iain Ball, Erick Beltrán, Jane Bennett, Benjamin H. Bratton, Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, Erik Davis, John Durham Peters & Paul Feigelfeld, Mircea Eliade, Boris Groys, Marguerite Humeau, Timothy Morton & Emilija Skarnulyte, Boris Ondreička, The Otolith Group, Jussi Parikka, Matteo Pasquinelli, Nadim Samman, Charles Stankievech.