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Film : Into Eternity by Michael Madsen (79min)

English and Japanese subtitled

Date: Saturday 31st March 19:00~ / Saturday 7th April 19:00~

location: 家作坊 HomeShop[map]

cost: 60yuan (with Hot sandwich and drink)
money will support running cost of HomeShop and a Japanese documentary filmmaker who works on nuclear power issues in Japan

The 2011 earthquake and resulting nuclear power disaster in Fukushima, Japan showed that the world’s resources are finite, while causing long-term dysfunctions of current social systems in the cities, where life with Cesium will have to be confronted for extended and indeterminate periods of time. And who imagine that nuclear waste are stored for 100, 000 years!

Recent HomeShop visiting friend Vera Tollmann has written a review:

nuclear waste must be securely stored for 100,000 years due to its potentially lethal radioactive radiation. But where? How are we to relate to such an immense period of time? Is anyone at all in a position to take on the responsibility for this length of time?… more

Contact: NGO fu-jin Network Beijing and HomeShop




7 Responses to “No No No film screening on March 31st / April 7th”

  1. e

    today i had a thought about forever.

    that the only way to go beyond ourselves, to consider seriously an other, is to think about forever. fuck impermanence. because impermanence can only be viewed humanly from a subjective concept of our own pithy life spans, and it is actually through the very impossibility of ‘forever’ that we may be able to even try to consider what 100,000 years means, what generations mean, what anything beyond “I” means. To even speak of impermanence is simply an excuse for spans of time that we can ‘realistically’ imagine, and this can only be a trap of personal limitation.

  2. e

    and i try (perhaps vainly, but that is precisely the point, now isn’t it; *note to self: should investigate more the realm of the post-human) to consider this outside of the traditions of the judeo-christian or indo-buddhist, for really, they are flip sides of the same coin, no? either consider atemporality and foreverness as a reason for acting morally in our own (permanent) lifespans (because you will be judged), or make (and not make) decisions within our lives because of the impermanence of it all. to consider the impossible weight of forever could only exist in the irreconcilability of ‘other’ and ‘i’, critchley’s unbearable demand that places responsibility upon something impossible, or without imaginable ends.

  3. f

    forever. utopia. the importance of the attempt to keep alive the possibility of imagining such a thing.

  4. c

    What does “atemporality and foreverness as a reason” mean?

  5. e

    fo,

    today we translated my favourite passage of the moment. probably still needs some work, but here, so far:

    布莱希特曾经写到,“我们缺了什么。”

    ‘这个“什么”是什么?’ 布洛赫问。

    “如果此物不能在画面中被预先感知,那么我更愿意在过程中将它的存在感展示出来。如果它没有实际存在,但我们也不应该将它完全排除在现实之外,那么我们可以用这句话来解释这件事:“它就是一个香肠”。我相信乌托邦不能被完全从现实世界排除,甚至是在肯定会出现的技术领域而技术领域也恰恰是强大的乌托邦王国的一小部分。 那是一张几何图画面,就不用过多言语形容了,但我们可以构想另一个画面当老农说道:吃饭之前不能跳舞,因为人们总是先喂饱他们的肚子,然后他们才能跳舞。”

    other,

    i probably use the wrong words again, but what was meant by “atemporality and foreverness” in that Judeo-Christian sense has to do with the making of decisions in this life on the basis of morality, with the wish or in light of the promises of eternal life with God in the next…

  6. c

    yes that sounds Christian, but that is not what I understand as impermanence. Not that I am willing to be a representative of any religion. But just for the sake of a perspective, impermanence doesn’t promise salvation. It is to a lifetime what distraction is to consciousness.

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