Vesper No. 8 | Vesper | Spring-Summer 2023
Tania Garribba, Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli, Maddalena Parise
X
Keywords
Organism, zone,
boundary, double, source
X is the
unknown, the X marked on the map, the hypothesis; X also defines – in
Jeff VandeMeer's novel (2014) – an area in the centre of the Earth where
an anomaly has occurred. An area in perpetual mutation that alters creatures
and the passage of time, an extended, sentient organism, radically non-human in
nature. A modified and alien zone where traces of our world are integrated into
an ecological system that synthesises new life forms, only apparently
resembling the known ones. In Area X there is something familiar in the
vegetation, in the birdsong, in the small animals, but something is not quite
as it should be. The traveller to Area X returns, if he returns at all, in the
form of a mutated original or copy. Area X spirals out of control, spreading
like a generative, multiplying infection; new life forms add to or replace the
known ones, indicating the possibility that the world will survive us or simply
continue to exist without us.
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