Abstract
Human activity and growth under Capitalism has had such impact on the
environment, that the present epoch is increasingly referred to as the
Anthropocene – the Age of Man. It is paradoxical, perhaps, that this focus on
Anthropos should occur alongside a developing awareness of the entanglement
of human and nonhuman species. These nonhuman and more-than-human others
have been largely ignored or abused by concepts of human exceptionalism and
the endless pursuit of profit. In what Braidotti (2019) terms the ‘posthuman
convergence’, that is the junction of mass ecological extinction and vast
technological revolution, is there time and space for material beings to form,
intra-act and traverse inter-dependently across new and unknown terrains?
environment, that the present epoch is increasingly referred to as the
Anthropocene – the Age of Man. It is paradoxical, perhaps, that this focus on
Anthropos should occur alongside a developing awareness of the entanglement
of human and nonhuman species. These nonhuman and more-than-human others
have been largely ignored or abused by concepts of human exceptionalism and
the endless pursuit of profit. In what Braidotti (2019) terms the ‘posthuman
convergence’, that is the junction of mass ecological extinction and vast
technological revolution, is there time and space for material beings to form,
intra-act and traverse inter-dependently across new and unknown terrains?
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 46-47 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | Intersections (Postgraduate Journal - Arts , Humanities , Social Sciences) |
Volume | 1 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published (in print/issue) - 3 Jul 2020 |
Keywords
- community art
- participatory art
- collaborative practice
- socially engaged art
- cultural rights
- sustainability