New Yorkers take note: 1882 Woodbine St., a new collaborative space that opened recently in Ridgewood, Brooklyn, is putting together an ongoing series of events and projects on living among the ruins of the Anthropocene. They hosted the inaugural event on January 12–a pdf of the talk is available here–and will follow it up with a second round on January 26. You can keep up to date of coming events–and life in the post-apocalypse–on their Facebook page.

“The word ‘crisis’ in ancient medicine, just like in the bible, meant a judgment, a decision, the decisive moment in which it was decided whether the patient would survive or die. Today, however, crisis is our prolonged state, in which the decision is endlessly deferred. By deciding to become party to the war that’s already underway, we put an end to this uncertainty. This can only be done through the building of worlds, materially, spiritually, and combatively, in other words, by inhabiting this desert, by making it blossom.” -1882 Woodbine