15: American National Parks' Simulated Reality and the Right to Preserve

“The National Park to Come” by Margret Grebowicz; Baudrillard’s “Astral America”; “Playing Indian” by Philip J. Deloria; national parks as simulacra; the spirits of places; hoarding nature; manifest destiny and the racist violence of america’s supposed nature conservancy; Derrida’s impossible future as the only one; the right to mutate and the right to preserve; Timothy Morton’s ‘the apocalypse is already here’; “The World Ends in Green”; the neoliberal individualization of climate guilt; the impossibility of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s ‘transparent eyeball’l; what nature photography misses Music: Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland performed by the Minnesota Orchestra; “The Orange Cat’s Special Time Outdoors” by Thundercat for Yo Gabba Gabba Sometimes it feels like something went wrong and that’s why we’re here, that we’re in some kind of cosmic cage or simulated psy-op.  We become in the face of simulations and psy-ops, and from wrongness spring. In thought and in body, no one, not two, in sky and seed sewn, we dream up shadows to love through and hold their calloused hands, shaping change in the nether pool from breath to breath and coming up again and again seeking vistas  of freedom. Learn from the labyrinths in breathing mountains.  How do you look and where are you looking? Note when you’re stuck and record before breaking. How’s that feel to rot with glee?

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