Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Future Ghosts”
“I had a sense of being propelled into the future while at the same time reversed into the prehistoric past. A past which held an animistic idea of the world, in which rocks and trees could speak” Leckey, in Wallis & Coustou 2019,16 This week, I was lucky enough to …
These past twenty months have been difficult, for everyone. Periods of intense highs and crushing lows, peaks, and troughs far more intense than any rollercoaster. I am currently struggling, badly. My mental health has plummeted to such an extent that thoughts I hoped I’d never experience again, have re-emerged over …
Slapped, spittle spattered, the girl ran. Ran towards the flyover, her place of safety, the space where others feared to tread, let alone linger. Here, the girl fell out of sight, out of time. The concrete enveloping her like wings, supplying solace, sanctuary, a place to breathe… A hot summer’s …
These past few weeks I’ve been looking inwards, frequently. My Twitter timeline seems to have suddenly become inundated with positive ‘BuzzTweets’; ‘Don’t worry about what’s happened, focus on what’s ahead’, ‘Today’s a new day, a new beginning, so smile’, but why should I? Maybe all this toothsome positivity is manifesting …
An introduction to the Liminal Worlds project
Late February saw the emergence into the Twittersphere of the @MyHeritage Deep Nostalgia app. Tech that enables you to ‘animate your old family photos’ (My Heritage Twitter account; 03/03/21). By uploading an image, the app would bring the person ‘to life’. Within a few short moments you could be visually …
“I guess the modern ghost is a product of technology. On a psychological level, as soon as you get a moving image, its nearest analogy is a ghost or a phantom. Ghosts in the moving image have always been inextricably linked” Mark Leckey, in Wallis & Coustou 2019, 17 Special …
The year is 2220, humans still exist as corporeal entities, not all have chosen, or can afford, to upload their consciousnesses fully to the network. Physical landscapes also persist, however, due to cataclysmic environmental change, these geological stratigraphies are now only accessed as points of reference. Archives, both geomorphological and …