“sic itur ad astra”

To read:

Walter Benjamin, “To the Planetarium”

Yuk Hui, “Cosmotechnics”

Sylvia Wynter, “The Re-enchantment of Humanism”

Review:

Nainoa Thompson, “On Wayfinding”

W.H. Auden, “The More Loving One“

Optional:

Lewis Mumford, “Art and Technics”

And one more thought…

Perhaps the true society will grow tired of development and, out of freedom, leave possibilities unused, instead of storming under a confused compulsion to the conquest of strange stars. A mankind which no longer knows want will begin to have an inkling of the delusory, futile nature of all the arrangements hitherto made in order to escape want, which used wealth to reproduce want on a larger scale. Enjoyment itself would be affected, just as its present framework is inseparable from operating, planning, having one’s way, subjugating. Rien faire comme une betê, lying on water and looking peacefully at the sky, “being, nothing else, without any further definition and fulfillment,” might take the place of process, act, satisfaction…

Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia, 1945