Texts and images document the disconnection between modernity and
ecological crisis: do we need to reset modernity's operating
system? Modernity has had so many meanings and tries to combine so
many contradictory sets of attitudes and values that it has become
impossible to use it to define the future. It has ended up crashing
like an overloaded computer. Hence the idea is that modernity might
need a sort of reset. Not a clean break, not a "tabula rasa," not
another iconoclastic gesture, but rather a restart of the
complicated programs that have been accumulated, over the course of
history, in what is often called the "modernist project." This
operation has become all the more urgent now that the ecological
mutation is forcing us to reorient ourselves toward an experience
of the material world for which we don't seem to have good
recording devices. Reset Modernity! is organized around six
procedures that might induce the readers to reset some of those
instruments. Once this reset has been completed, readers might be
better prepared for a series of new encounters with other cultures.
After having been thrown into the modernist maelstrom, those
cultures have difficulties that are just as grave as ours in
orienting themselves within the notion of modernity. It is not
impossible that the course of those encounters might be altered
after modernizers have reset their own way of recording their
experience of the world. At the intersection of art, philosophy,
and anthropology, Reset Modernity! has assembled close to sixty
authors, most of whom have participated, in one way or another, in
the Inquiry into Modes of Existence initiated by Bruno Latour.
Together they try to see whether such a reset and such encounters
have any practicality. Much like the two exhibitions Iconoclash and
Making Things Public, this book documents and completes what could
be called a "thought exhibition:" Reset Modernity! held at ZKM |
Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe from April to August 2016. Like
the two others, this book, generously illustrated, includes
contributions, excerpts, and works from many authors and artists.
Contributors Jamie Allen, Terence Blake, Johannes Bruder, Dipesh
Chakrabarty, Philip Conway, Michael Cuntz, Eduardo Viveiros de
Castro, Didier Debaise, Gerard de Vries, Philippe Descola, Vinciane
Despret, Jean-Michel Frodon, Martin Giraudeau, Sylvain Gouraud,
Lesley Green, Martin Guinard-Terrin, Clive Hamilton, Graham Harman,
Antoine Hennion, Andres Jaque, Pablo Jensen, Bruno Karsenti, Sara
Keel, Oleg Kharkhordin, Joseph Leo Koerner, Eduardo Kohn, Bruno
Latour, Christophe Leclercq, Vincent-Antonin Lepinay, James
Lovelock, Patrice Maniglier, Claudia Mareis, Claude Marzotto, Kyle
McGee, Lorenza Mondada, Pierre Montebello, Stephen Muecke, Cyril
Neyrat, Cormac O'Keeffe, Hans Ulrich Obrist, P3G, John Palmesino,
Nicolas Prignot, Donato Ricci, Ann-Sofi Roennskog, Maia Sambonet,
Henning Schmidgen, Isabelle Stengers, Hanna Svensson, Thomas
Thwaites, Nynke van Schepen, Consuelo Vasquez, Peter Weibel,
Richard White, Aline Wiame, Jan Zalasiewicz Exhibition April 10,
2016-August 21, 2016 ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Edited by Bruno Latour with Christophe Leclerc Copublished with ZKM
| Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
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