A podcast with Andri Snær Magnason.
“We’ve been in this whirlwind tornado of technology and progress and apps and communication and noise and stuff—and we’ve seen all of these inventions during the twentieth century—that we have become kind of reckless against the future. That is, we just think that things will fix themselves.”All about the climate crisis and time and water.
Magnason’s diverse body of work includes Dreamland, a nonfiction account of Iceland’s climate policies; a corresponding documentary co-directed by Magnason of the same name; and The Story of the Blue Planet, a whimsical tale of gluttony and sacrifice that won the Icelandic Literary Prize (a first for a children’s book) and was adapted into a play. A rigorous thinker and empathizer in all aspects of his work, Magnason examines beauty and ugliness as symbiotic instead of antagonistic.
His poetry book Bónus is characteristic of this dynamic.
Stemming from a critique of the Icelandic supermarket Bónus, the book envisions the world, not so unrealistically, as commercialised bulk.
Ironically, or maybe not, the Bónus supermarket itself published Bónus, closing off the writer’s satire full circle.
I have a copy...
There is also a transcript of the long discussion and lots of images below..
This is a very useful resource with lots to take away with respect to the Icelandic landscape.
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