New Essay by Monika Szuba
22.04.2024
Former Landhaus Fellow and Associate Professor at the University of Gdańsk Monika Szuba just published an essay with the magazine Edge Effects titled “The Matter with Time,” which she wrote in her time at the Landhaus. The essay is part of the new Edge Effects series Troubling Time.
In the essay, Monika outlines how fossils, plastics, and symbiotic organisms prompt humans to confront deep time.
From the beginning of the essay:
“The reified skin fragment highlights the enormous temporal scales that resist human comprehension. How do we adjust to the deep time revealed through such findings? How do we collapse human and geological timescales? This temporal vastness transcends human understanding. There is an impossibility of apprehending experience through reason and discourse contrasted with the finitude of human life.” (Szuba, “The Matter with Time”)
You can read the full essay here.