The Surface of Each Day: Questions For Cosmonauts
<p class="p1">Following touchdown and a brief period of anticipatory quarantine, the surface of the day was investigated for the presence of organic traces of animate matter. Preliminary reports from the first batch of samples continue to demonstrate the usual anomalies. The important question: ‘What Constitutes a Sign of Life?” remains in suspended animation. Metabolism, Growth, Sentience and Reproduction may all be expressing themselves in ambiguous ways, and it is possible that the test criteria being applied in order to identify them are insufficient to this task. How do we know what metabolism or sentience or reproduction look like in hitherto unknown, or unimagined life forms? How can we know?…</p>
Authors: Raqs Media Collective
Design: Garrick Gott
Funder: The Gesso Foundation
Part of: Artists and Activists
ISBN: 978-0-89439-029-6