This flash piece asks what development means for rivers, indigenous farmers, and tourists when we redirect, move, siphon water from one region to another. The work considers rivers as traces of time, peoples, environments, following my chronology physical residence(s) in California, Hunan, Guangxi, Yunnan China. I begin the Bay Area, where grew up, move time spent on five Southern China: Xiangj...

Discussions around the meaning and validity of Freud’s notion Todestrieb (the “death-drive” or “death-instinct”), as it was introduced in essay from 1920 Beyond Pleasure Principle, later inscribed center so-called “Second Topography” unconscious, finally applied to an interpretation “discontent” our civilization, are proliferating. Either they concentrate on clinical genealogy articulation with...