Dyffryn Prehistoric Burial Chambers, Dyffryn, Wales

Dyffryn Prehistoric Burial Chambers, Dyffryn, Wales

 Automation, which is both the most advanced sector of modern industry and the epitome of its practice, obliges the commodity system to resolve the following contradiction: The technological developments that objectively tend to eliminate work must at the same time preserve labour as a commodity, because labour is the only creator of commodities. The only way to prevent automation (or any other less extreme method of increasing labour productivity) from reducing society’s total necessary labour time is to create new jobs. To this end the reserve army of the unemployed is enlisted into the tertiary or “service” sector, reinforcing the troops responsible for distributing and glorifying the latest commodities; and in this it is serving a real need, in the sense that increasingly extensive campaigns are necessary to convince people to buy increasingly unnecessary commodities.

Guy Debord, from Society of the Spectacle (tr. Ken Knabb)

Sea ice breaks apart in various block sizes roughly 40 miles (64 kilometers) off the coast of Antarctica. Antarctic sea ice extends far north in the winter and retreats almost to the coastline every summer. In the 1980s, Antarctica lost 40 billion tons of ice every year. In the last decade, that figure was estimated at a staggering 252 billion tons per year.

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Source imagery: Maxar

tidnish mountain by rob macinnis

Joseph R. Woodwell, The Gorge, 1899

Toledo metro tunnel. Naples, November 2015.