Elsa - New Reactive Earth by Lina Persson

This is a snapshot of the Storyworld New Reactive Earth, from March 2024. This worldbuilding began in 2011 when a collaboration with Prof. Ronald Mallett evoked in me how his time travel theory could enable future generations to confront how the present depletes the Earth. This made the conflict tangible and resistance possible, prompting me to continue developing this concept through methods of CO2 limitations and collective sharing in collaborations and interventions. Experimentation with limiting bodily access to energy and resources helped embody the storyworld's speculative premises. Slowing down breath, heart rate, and metabolism achieved an altered state that attuned me further to the relations and how I am entangled in my environment. Through iterative interplay, this speculative 'introverse' and my everyday environments have shaped each other. With the included prompt cards I invite you to join this shaping, to extend this interplay to your own environment. This Storyworld is neither a utopia nor a dystopia but a transtopia—a place to go through in order to get beyond current realities, get a glimpse of what else could be. Follow the developments of NRE at researchcatalogue.net/view/266314 /266339 NEW REACTIVE EARTH MATERIALS: STORYWORLD BIBLE STORYWORLD MAP STORYWORLD PROMPT CARDS

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Persistent experimentation preceded the shift.
bending of time and space with Mallet’s lasers.
when, in the midst of the warm war II
spiralling loops finally collided.
opening the path.
Shaping that occasion into a subatomic temporal access point.
generating a time tunnel, as time passed on from that moment
connecting the present with a future other, through this portal,
impenetrable from this end.

But they arrived.
They emerged as proton particles.
Through this one-way channel from another time.
Crossing the threshold, they unpacked themselves, transferred into code.
Reversing causal directions.
Hacking the present
enabling the earth system to update herself.
connective strings growing between everything everywhere, like a cyborg gaia. A reactive earth.
Sensing and regulating how every process on earth absorb energy, resources, and life space.

the colonisation of the future pushed back
inflamed passages relieved
The askew power dynamic between present and future settled.
We are becoming new bodies with this world
Our possibility to extract energy from the system is drastically reduced.
halting practically every activity that previously made up everyday life.
Our sensory apparatuses nudging and dissolving.
pain and pleasure,
resistance and submission
we are re-calibrating individual habits with the needs of our new larger body,

we are elsa, - the New Reactive Earth

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