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WE GO ROUND AND ROUND IN THE NIGHT
Welcome to Natural History.
"We Go Round and Round in the Night" is an exhibition at the
Feldman Gallery Portland Oregon. Inside of the space, one would first
encounter a man, he is an evolved yet primal technological being. He sits
on a floatation device
he himself probably constructed of board and foam (some barnacles and
fake plants have organically began to make it their home also) that melds
into a tubular extension of a wearable home, it seems as if this lone
soul has made this cave-like extension of his floatation device, this
man’s home.
The rest of this page outlines the philosophy behind We Go Round and Round: Neoliberalism refers to the policies and processes whereby a relative handful of private interests are permitted to control as much as possible of social life in order to maximize their persona profit. Associated initially with Regan and Thatcher, neoliberalism has for the past two decades been the dominant global political economic trend adopted by political parties of the center. The policies enacted represent the immediate interests of extremely wealthy investors and corporations. Neoliberalism as expressed by much of America's media, is a term invoked to rationalize anything from lowering taxes on the wealthy and scrapping environmental regulations to dismantling public education and social welfare programs. Indeed, any activity that might interfere with corporate domination of society is automatically suspect because it would impeed the workings of "free market". The economic consequences of these policies have been the same just about everywhere, and exactly what one would expect: a massive increase in social and economic inequality, a marked increase in severe deprivation for the poorest nations and peoples of the world, a disastrous global environment, an unstable global economy, and an unprecedented bonanza for large and powerful corporations. Democracy is permissible as long as the control of business is off-limits to popular deliberation or change - so long as it isn't democracy. A golden theory in Progress TWO
OUT OF THREE CORPORATIONS THAT MAY GAIN MASS AMMOUNTS OF CONTROL AND GREATLY
ESTABLISH A SITUATION WE WILL CALL GLOBALITY:
BECHTEL and other such massive water companies,
particularly Suez:
The cyclicality
of history and future In a democratic government, people must feel a connection to their fellow citizens, and this connection manifests itself though a variety of nonmarket organizations and institutions. A vibrant political culture needs community groups, libraries, public schools, neighborhood organizations, public meeting places, trade unions, voluntary associations to provide ways for citizens to meet, communicatte, and interact with their fellow citizens. Neoliberal democracy, takes dead aim at this sector. Instead of ciizens, it wants consumers.The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless. Globalization is the result of powerful governments pushing trade deals and other accords down the throats of world's people to make it easire for corporations and the wealthy to dominate the economies of nations around the world without having obligations to the peoples of those nations. < go to reviews of Round and Round < go to the Future of Singularity
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machine. man. breather. spectus. 
A wearable home offers protection to the wearer, protection from the environment
and its harms, from other people, and is a place to live in. He constructs
this out of a universal fabric, muslin. The Styrofoam and cardboard are
also universal materials, and it is likely he found these materials in
many different locations before they temporarily became his. With this
structure, we wonder, are we in a navigator’s head? Inside his body?
His home? This home, a precursor or alternative to the purely wearable
home, allow for functionality in a society that is too mobile for roots.
The wearable homes have tubular reachers and receivers, that become extensions
of the body and interact with the world around them, so the person’s
actual body is at all times protected, unharmed. In the installation,
the cave is made from the same material as the 
It
is written in a universal language. He sits there and interacts with a
machine. On himself he has a water-purification system made by the global-mother
of all companies, Bechtel. He also has on him many signifiers that he
is recording/or being recorded. Inside this structure he has made for
himself also live some animals. They are not alive but rather fake, but
he may think they are real. He is tricked by real vs illusion constantly.
On the walls of the space there is metallic snakelike tubing - recording
devices singling out parts of the space with the help of monofilament.
I Die Daily Beneath the Ruins - GNS Directive Center.