The Anthropocene Shifts in Visual Arts: A Case against Anthropocentrism
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Authors
Krajewska, Ania
Issue Date
2017-12-15
Type
Article
Language
en
Keywords
Sixth Extinction , cognitive sciences , Anthropocene , anthropocentrism , visual arts , dark ecology
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Abstract
Although this paper focuses largely on the Anthropocene, it is not about the local or global
dangers of climate changes and escalation of pollution. It is about the diverse responses of
selected artists and humanists to the problems created by the anthropocentrically structured
powers geared for exploitation of biological environments and material ecologies. These
artistic reactions cannot be simplified to a single thread of environmental storytelling: they
are seen and interpreted as personal and moral responses to the perceptions about the old
culture-nature dichotomy as well as to commodification and depletion of the biosphere. This
article looks at individual reactions of artists who respond to the exploitable character of the
global-wide management of environmental and technological resources; the responses to
a paradigm often referred to as the “Anthropocene” or “Sixth Extinction”. The Anthropocene
and cognitive sciences have been considered game changers by numerous thinkers as they
can affect perceptions about anthropocentrism
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Citation
Ania Krajewska (2017) The Anthropocene Shifts in Visual Arts: A Case against Anthropocentrism, de arte, 52:2-3, 29-53
Publisher
Taylor & Francis