Solution 295-304: Mare Amoris

by Ingo Niermann, Marah J. Hardt, Eduardo Navarro (illustrator)

It was the concept of the ocean as a global commons, free for everyone—first formulated by Hugo Grotius in his 1609 treatise, Mare Liberum—that stimulated a free global market. Today, the free market and the free ocean both suffer from rigorous, exploitive use. A new concept of how to relate to the ocean could transform the global economy and global politics. Solution 295–304: Mare Amoris proposes new practical, technological, and metaphysical scenarios of how to fall in love with the sea, and, eventually, have the sea fall in love with us.

108 pages, Paperback

Published February 1, 2020

Reviews

[Shreyas · Rating 3 out of 5]

timepass. not really a book at all, kind of an abstract compilation of thoughts about the sea and aquatic environments and human relationship to them. several broad sweeping generalizations and assumptions about what could happen in the future that aren’t really explained or dug into. also kinda pretentious. would be better experienced if you approach it as somewhat whimsical yet creative imaginations of a marine future, rather than a book about “solutions” to the ocean problem. also has plenty of gratuitously sexualized doodles with no apparent connection to anything. to each their own i guess.

“God is a paternalistic placeholder for the unfathomable supremacy of the ocean.”

[Perla]

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i wish i had written the text by marah j hardt - but i had the pleasure to read it
and have been reading it outloud to friends
thank u

read it in a hot tub on a coast guard vessel

[Alexandra M · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful collection of essays. The optimistic and imaginative tone for a topic typically so pessimistic (climate change/conservation) is so immensely refreshing and delightful to read.