Reverse Hallucinations in the Archipelago, edited by Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin (K. Verlag and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt) gallery Mayer mixes together delightful epigrams

Mayer mixes together delightful epigrams (“What it means to be a mammal / sexually /it’s cute”)

Jenny Nachtigal

despite everything

11 × 7 cm

Published by ACTION BOOKS

Reverse Hallucinations in the Archipelago, edited by Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin (K. Verlag and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt) gallery Mayer mixes together delightful epigramsintercalations 3 unfolds an itinerant encounter with nineteenth century European naturalists in the Malay world, where the theory of evolution by natural selection emerged alongside less celebrated concerns about mass extinction and climate change; by re considering the reverse hallucinatory condition of colonial science in the tropicshow scientists learned to not see what was manifestly presentthe reader as exhibition viewer may exhume from the