“The Ark Problem: Climate Collapse and Radical Curation” is an essay for REPHRASE that begins with the Euphrates and the prospect of its severe decline by 2040. From this threatened river system, the text turns to a question of cultural survival: what should be carried forward when ecological collapse makes every act of preservation an act of selection?
The essay approaches curation as a response to scarcity rather than a neutral act of display. Its “Deep Objects” and annotated photographs draw attention to the material traces and relationships that survive inside images, while asking what forms of knowledge can be preserved without pretending that an archive can contain everything.
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The Ark Problem: Climate Collapse and Radical Curation
Published by REPHRASE
Read the essay: https://www.rephrasemag.com/mens-en-ecologie/the-ark-problem-climate-collapse-and-radical-curation
