Garbage-scented panic:
Joseph Dalton
"Roughness for the sake of its own roughness and toughness as a misinformed evolutionary instinct- second guessing the intention of others in complete error."
An introduction to “Garbage-scented panic”, a piece by Joseph Dalton.
Introduction written by Fabrizio Previti
What signals our obsolescence? Meanwhile, life braids the organic with the inorganic - technology with virus, tool with host - into an intangible flesh where screens and reels mirror our fragility and trauma, amid a flourishing coexistence with microbes and micro-species that live in our bodies. In “Garbage-scented panic”, that ecology spreads from the cracked phone to the algorithmic mould of our feeds: citizens become camera crews, voyeurism hardens into performance, and the city edges toward a collective breakdown hunger by prejudice of a screen-based society. Writing performs the surgery: it exposes the human condition in a metaphorical anatomical theatre, lets it pass among us, and gathers the organism back together amid the web of our shared contagions