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Tue 02 Feb 2009Nowhere left to go for humanity
Clare Langan’s visually stunning films of post-apocalyptic landscapes could be interpreted as prophecies of ecological disaster, but if so, she doesn’t seem too upset at the prospect, writes AIDAN DUNNE
IT IS, AS philosopher Martin Heidegger famously put it, always already too late. Our attempts to step outside the stark imperatives of our mortal existence and gain some transcendent, objective viewpoint, he argued, are already doomed to failure by the very nature of our being.
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