A demon is a disruptive force. It's a supernatural entity that thrives on chaos, destroying the potential of a logically consistent world. In our current political climate, the demon will be interpreted as that which fractures consensus reality. As we develop into increasingly alienated from the actual world, technology accelerates at a rapid pace, while climate change collapses all understanding of our place on this planet. “Community, religion, locality, all these items that previously allowed us to create our collective understanding of reality have less of a likelihood than ever at breaking through,” agrees Harris Rosenblum, whose solo exhibition Inorganic Demons is on show at SARA’S in Recent York.
The title Inorganic Demons comes from Reza Negarastani’s 2008 book Cyclonopedia, an...
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