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After the apocalypse
On snowless pre -holiday days, Colta.ru shares the overall alarm and offers readers a certain number of forecasts for the future. Bad and good - who likes what more.
From the author
A person is always inclined to want more than he has, as a result of which technological progress appeared, which was a means of creating all kinds of amenities, standards, as well as instruments of violence to retain power.
The principle of “better, higher, stronger” is often the main ideology of states, for this they are ready to sacrifice almost everyone. At the same time, a person should become an instrument to achieve the goals, and in return to get a higher level of comfort.
I travel in search of places that played an important role for technical progress: secret cities that do not have on maps, forgotten scientific projects, abandoned technocratic constructions infected due to production accidents. An ideal technocratic future that could not have occurred. Any progress ends sooner or later. This can happen for various reasons. Due to the atomic war, the economic crisis or natural cataclysm. I am interested to see what remains after.
The “Closed Territories” project can be seen at the exhibition at Pechersky Gallery until January 31, 2016