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A handbook for navigating our troubled and precarious times
intended to help readers imagine and make their world anew. In
search of new knowledge practices that can help us make the world
livable again, this book takes the reader on a journey across
time-from the deep past to the unfolding future. The authors search
beyond human knowledge to establish negotiated partnerships with
forms of knowledge within the planet itself, examining how we have
manipulated these historically through an anthropocentric focus.
The book explores the many different kinds of knowledge, and the
diversity of instruments needed to invoke and actuate the potency
of human and nonhuman agencies. Four key phases in our ways of
knowing are identified: material, strengthening, reconfiguring and
extending, which are exemplified through case studies that take the
form of worlding experiments. This pioneering work will inspire
architects, artists and designers as well as students, teachers and
researchers across arts and design disciplines.
A handbook for navigating our troubled and precarious times
intended to help readers imagine and make their world anew. In
search of new knowledge practices that can help us make the world
livable again, this book takes the reader on a journey across
time-from the deep past to the unfolding future. The authors search
beyond human knowledge to establish negotiated partnerships with
forms of knowledge within the planet itself, examining how we have
manipulated these historically through an anthropocentric focus.
The book explores the many different kinds of knowledge, and the
diversity of instruments needed to invoke and actuate the potency
of human and nonhuman agencies. Four key phases in our ways of
knowing are identified: material, strengthening, reconfiguring and
extending, which are exemplified through case studies that take the
form of worlding experiments. This pioneering work will inspire
architects, artists and designers as well as students, teachers and
researchers across arts and design disciplines.
With the practices of art, science and technology increasingly
converging, the concepts of origins and originality raise some of
the most pressing questions in contemporary research, including
issues of agency and accountability, hybridity and identity,
intellectual property and oeuvre, intention and authority. These,
and a constellation of related philosophical, economic, aesthetic,
legislative and political concerns, are today subject to rapid
reconfiguration due to the current pace of technological and
theoretical change. Second Nature accordingly brings into a
productive, interdisciplinary dialogue scholars working at the
intersections of art, science and technology. Contributions explore
how technologies of reproduction alter the meaning of concepts such
as origin and originality, and how the borders between what we
think of as "authentic" and "fake," "natural" and "artificial," are
under constant negotiation and transformation. Interdisciplinary -
and transdisciplinary - research demands rethinking our existing
discursive and methodological orthodoxies. Second Nature arrives as
a timely response, illuminating contemporary debates concerning
digital and biological reproduction, nature and technology, art and
authenticity, criticality and hybridity.
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