considered solution for architectural problem in Australia
Evgeny Morozov
"Solutionism": an intellectual pathology that recognizes problems as problems based on just one criterion: whether they are"solvable" with a nice and clean technological solution at our disposal.
the idea is that technology can save us
think about technology as negotiations not solutions
cane toads vs. cane beetle
Fitness trackers; narratives that scaffold them: it’s gonna solve our fitness problems and make us better human beings.
Timothy Morton
Bruno Latour
Modernity’s premise is separation of nature and culture
Joseph Beuys, I love America and America loves me
(performance work)
made sure never step foot on america soil
went straight into the art gallery from the airport
spent time with coyote while he was there
coyote representing nature
Meghan Moebeitiks(2011) The Plant Was Present(performance work)
question this non-human entity
sat people in front of a plant and interaction with it
The Plant Sex Consultancy, Pei-Ying Lin, Dimitris Stamatis, Jasmina Weiss, Spela Petric
understanding endangered plants specie and how they reproduce
help them reproduce
recasting the sex pieces into those plans
Tega Brain
Keeping Time, 2014
using Jacaranda(flower), Sydney from 2002-2013
can we change flower patterns(in nature like) in a crowd source like Flickr?
our images are about how we see other species; collection bias; we only see them as they flower but not other times of the year.
Latour: environmental issues are not factual, but matters of concern
Bruno Latour
Matters of fact are not all that is given in experience. Matters of fact are only very partial and, I would argue, very polemical, very political renderings of matters of concern and only a subset of what could also be called states of affairs. It is this second empiricism, this return to the realist attitude, that I'd like to offer as the next task for the critically minded.
Anthropocene
Peter Dinkler(?) argued the moment chlorine gas used during WW as a profound change to our connection to the environment
fetishizing machines and using them to facilitate work that they're doing
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