Peculiar Car
Another peculiar object, from Matthew Barney’s Cremaster 4.
What is Next Nature?
With our attempts to cultivate nature, humankind causes the rising of a next nature, which is wild and unpredictable as ever. Wild systems, genetic surprises, autonomous machinery and splendidly beautiful black flowers. Nature changes along with us.
Discussion
The simple and obvious fact about the car is that, more than any horse, it is an extension of man that turns the rider into a superman. It is a hot, explosive medium of social communication.
-Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
“The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.”
-Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)