All Art is Ecological (Green Ideas)

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The plants are a different variety of ferns and hemps, chosen for their ability to treat the soil from metal pollutants. In this paper, I take a critical look at the stated motivations and experienced outcomes of climate change art, by analyzing the statements of over 20 artists and the comments made by curators, critics and members of the general public. Great art, he said, not only expresses “truth” in a culture but provides a springboard from which “that which is” can be revealed. This paper analyses ecological thinking in the theoretical works of Timothy Morton with relation to nature and its representation in the ecological writings/theory.

His argument goes something like this: By turning the issue into a definitive yes or no (verbally voting: I believe or I don’t believe), we lose the actual experience of being in the uncanny. However, I felt like the main points got lost in a lot of the text, which seemed unnecessary and didn't really flow to form coherent points. Clay Shirky, prominent thinker on the Internet and its social and economic consequences, and author of Here Comes Everybody, in The Atlantic. In Morton’s terms that means thinking along the lines of agricultural religion—Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, and so on, thinking characterized by hierarchal views, utilizing the unambiguous language of good and bad, us and them.But he then suggests that the ultimate result is the mass extinction event that we are, in fact, experiencing. Lyginant su kitom Mortono knygom čia jau atsiradę nemažai pamokymų ir patarimų, tokio pamoralizavimo ekologinės gyvensenos klausimais. I thought that I’d try one last attempt though and wow - such a clever interpretation and commentary on the philosophical side of the topic. They only really say that you have to live in the present and feel the interconnectedness of things, thereby relinquishing pure subjective thinking and a sense of pure agency without explaining how you as an individual might help address environmental concerns. This was just a philosophical ego trip guised as a critique on the state of our current ecological warfare.

Some parts of this were really interesting and had some great ideas/fun facts about things that tied in nicely. That being said - I don’t feel that embracing these ideas without action is enough for surviving mass extinction, as the author seems to suggest.

Either we are being preached to as individuals, being made to feel bad and encouraged to change our habits, so that maybe we will feel better, because we think others think of us differently –or we are being lectured at, made to feel powerless, because the thought of revolution or other kinds of political change are very inspiring, but also bring up thoughts of how they might be resisted or constrained: the powers that be are too great, revolutions are always co-opted. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

I hope that, despite the fascinatingly dense block of rambling that this book is, certain elements can be picked out and extrapolated in science, art and combined ways of thinking alike. Here Garrad problematises how we meaningfully relate to our surroundings beyond the local and beyond something that is not directly accessible to us via our senses and how this is then dealt with in literature. Except as permitted by the Copy- right Act, including section 107 (fair use), or other applicable law, no part of the contents of Antennae: The Journal of Na- ture in Visual Culture may be reproduced without the written permission of the author(s) and/or other rights holders. Using plants and mushrooms as instruments, Waterflower creates a blend of experimental electronic music that speaks to the urgent need to protect and preserve our natural world.Morton says that climate change is too weak, and so he prefers global warming– since it is focused on the actual effect of climate change. I think he's gambling on the fact that most readers won't have read Deleuze either and he will get away with faking it. Instead of taking an academic stance, Morton's book reads more like a chain of chatty riffs on phenomenology, ecological attunement, and art's hypnotic power.