Sha Xin Wei
This week’s dispatch features an interview with Sha Xin Wei.
Taking a great deal of inspiration from the everyday practices that have sustained and nurtured experimental theatre troupes, Xin Wei’s work is about more than doing art, philosophy, and science; it is also about making worlds that condition different ways of doing art, philosophy, and science.
Abolition
The industrialized world, as I have come to regard it, is a world constructed on the hypothesis that machines can replace slaves or, rather more precisely, that new machine slaves could be gradually made to replace the human slaves of old, and that a “temporary” and “voluntary” sort of human slavery, wage slavery, may suffice in the interim between the old human driven order and the new machine driven order.