{"product_id":"paradigm-adidas-skateboarding-life-before","title":"PARADIGM x ADIDAS, LIFE BEFORE","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLife Before_ \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIf something was to wake up a species from a downward evolutionary spiral, you wouldn’t want it to be climate change. Because that is a very firm planetary reset button. And by the time climate equilibrium has been tipped, it is too late to avoid losing and never getting back ecosystems, weather, landscapes, creatures and plants this species takes for granted. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBut here we are. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFacing the risk of survival on an increasingly uninhabitable Earth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eClimate change is more than a series of cascading problems to be solved. It represents an existential opening towards real chaos, renewal and recovery. Living with climate awareness is a hack into an initiatory experience, not a fixed trajectory for success or failure. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMark Suciu formulates a query in the introduction to the Life Before book: “how can we explore the idea of a life before a weaponized climate starts to change our relationship to the world?” This question is examined by a group of fourteen artists and writers - friends of the publisher coimbatoreshoppe- in the book Life Before_. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecoimbatoreshoppehas been making artist lead publications and apparel since 2014. The initiative works through a slowly expanding community of people from very different walks of life and with equally diverse forms of aesthetic expressions. From photography, painting, essays, interviews, fashion, and poetry, the aspiration of coimbatoreshoppehas been to hold open space for popular culture to encounter radical ideas. There are thirty-five of such projects and this is one of the last.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAdidas have partnered up with coimbatoreshoppeto create a publication for artists and writers to express themselves freely on matters of ecological unraveling. What formed is an assembly of citizens’ expressions. An incomplete guide that might direct towards hidden paths beneath the dominant battlegrounds. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt is natural and ok to feel anxious about the many forms of devastation brought about by the hands of the powerful. To feel unfit in a world where information systems steer everything they encounter to become consumers - the real world paperclip AI - could be a sign of mental health. To be unsettled about the ways more and more technological capabilities create growing levels of ecological instability and uncertainty - a high-tech new dark age - also seems reasonable. It is not unusual or wrong to feel bad about the larger predicaments of the present day, but it is also not enough. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt is important to know that these reactions are shared by many. If this is a first encounter for you with attempts at highlighting the emotional consequences of climate change, this project should be seen as one of many. There are growing communities of people who are sharing emotional intelligence across the world. Inventing psychological methods, therapeutic approaches, rituals, organizations and pushing for positive climate actions in more ways than can be summarized here. Good places to go further is to dive into sources such as \u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/gendread.substack.com\/\"\u003eGen Dread\u003c\/a\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/heated.world\/\"\u003eHeated\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, \u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hottakepod.com\/\"\u003eHot Take\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, \u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/wecanfixit.substack.com\/\"\u003eWe can Fix It\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, \u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ecoanxious.ca\/\"\u003eEco-Anxious Stories \u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, and \u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/good-grief.org\/category\/newsletters\/\"\u003eGood Grief\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe believe it is through our capacities to work with the emotions rising in us in these years and decades that important answers to questions of sustainability, equity and resilience will come through action. The sources above have already started this work and gone far in a very short amount of time. Hopefully they will continue to open up spaces for identifying and working with climate emotions. What Life Before has to offer in this regard is an aesthetically ambiguous plot - a starting point with multiple histories and possible aftermaths.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eby Aslak Aamot Helm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Roboto, HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\" face=\"Roboto, HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8.5” x 11.5” \/ 128 pages \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCover blind emboss \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFull color offset printing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCD die cut\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction by Mark Suciu\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfterword by Theophilos Constantinou\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eISBN \u003cspan\u003e978-1-7354450-5-2\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFirst edition of 1500\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted in Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContributors Anthony Jamari Thomas, Zohra Opoku, Reginald Sylvester II, Kim Giannone, Marie Tomanova, Maxwell Deter, KC Ortiz, Radamiz, Sam Lindenfeld, Onyx Collective, Mark Suciu, Aslak Aamot Helm, Elvia Wilk, James Bridle and Nick Hakim\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRESS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/michellebruton\/2022\/01\/12\/mark-suciu-talks-thrasher-skater-of-the-year-win-and-adidas-skateboarding-x-paradigm-capsule-collaboration\/?sh=6b71163c569f\" title=\"Forbes\"\u003eForbes\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"coimbatoreshoppe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39632252338261,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1800\/9639\/products\/image.jpg?v=1637350788","url":"https:\/\/coimbatoreshoppe.com\/products\/paradigm-adidas-skateboarding-life-before","provider":"coimbatoreshoppe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}