Blogging today from Deep North at Transmediale in Berlin, Marko Peljhan is speaking about 'discovering a prepared reality' as an antidote to the romantic myth of polar exploration. Previously, a session on "Perishing in Beauty? talked about the ambiguous role of culture in climate change with Claus Leggewie discussing, among other things, the provocative advertising campaign by Diesel clothing, showing a fashinable couple in swimwear in the Antarctic with penguins, devoid of ice, and sunbathing on the roof of a building in a submerged New York.
