All Art is Ecological (Green Ideas)

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Many times I noted "word salad" or "male logic" in the margins cause it didnt make sense, he didnt argue in anyway clearly or precisely, and he didnt follow through with this thoughts. hot on the heels of reading Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne books, with ants in pants, I awaited the arrival of this recent release to re-up my dosage: these are excerpts from his 2018 book “Being Ecological” which I highly recommend. if you want to consider ecological thinking, bring ecology out of the shadows and make art of the data, don’t just talk about it.

ecological ambiguity, why art is a “transparent bag of eyes,” and the “beauty soup isn’t for eating,” and how that uncanny not-me quality might save us from mass extinction….Several major exhibitions, most notably in Boulder (2007), London and Copenhagen (2009), Paris (2012), New York (2013), Boston (2014), and Melbourne (2015), have placed climate change art on the map as a new and timely genre. This text was written in conjunction with the online exhibition "Lo Ch'ing: Painting the Postmodern Landscape", http://the-poets-brush. Clay Shirky, prominent thinker on the Internet and its social and economic consequences, and author of Here Comes Everybody, in The Atlantic. Works of art are not merely representations of the way things are, however, but function to reveal and evolve a community’s shared understanding.

This was just a philosophical ego trip guised as a critique on the state of our current ecological warfare. As part of the Penguin Classics Green Ideas Timothy Morton's ' p rovocative and playful, All Art is Ecological explores the strangeness of living in an age of mass extinction, and shows us that emotions and experience are the basis for a deep philosophical engagement with ecology.However, a risk in much climate change art is reverting to the aesthetic of the sublime, which has a long-standing tradition but which I argue does nothing to meaningfully engage the public with climate change.

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.In addition I discuss environmental and spatial aesthetics of listening in current contemporary art and media theory. 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.