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What is astro-culture? In The Babylonian Planet it is unfolded as
an aesthetic, an idea, a field of study, a position, and a
practice. It helps to engineer the shift from a world view that is
segregated to one that is integrated – from global to planetary;
from distance to intimacy and where closeness and cosmic distance
live side-by-side. In this tour de force, Sonja Neef takes her cue
from Edouard Glissant’s vision of multilingualism and reignites
the myth of the Tower of Babel to anticipate new forms of cultural
encounter. For her, Babel is an organic construction site at which
she fuses theoretical analysis and case studies of artists, writers
and thinkers like William Kentridge, Orhan Pamuk and Immanuel Kant.
Her skilful interrogations then allow her to paint a portrait of
art and culture that abolishes the horizon as a barrier to vision
and reclaims it as a place of contact and relation. By combining
the Babylonian concept of the encounter and the planetary concept
of the whole-earth, Neef creates a space – an astro-culture –
in which she can examine topics as varied as language, translation,
media, modernity, migration and the moon. In doing so, she
instigates a renewed cultural understanding receptive to the kinder
forms of cultural encounter and globalisation she hopes will come.
What is astro-culture? In The Babylonian Planet it is unfolded as
an aesthetic, an idea, a field of study, a position, and a
practice. It helps to engineer the shift from a world view that is
segregated to one that is integrated - from global to planetary;
from distance to intimacy and where closeness and cosmic distance
live side-by-side. In this tour de force, Sonja Neef takes her cue
from Edouard Glissant's vision of multilingualism and reignites the
myth of the Tower of Babel to anticipate new forms of cultural
encounter. For her, Babel is an organic construction site at which
she fuses theoretical analysis and case studies of artists, writers
and thinkers like William Kentridge, Orhan Pamuk and Immanuel Kant.
Her skilful interrogations then allow her to paint a portrait of
art and culture that abolishes the horizon as a barrier to vision
and reclaims it as a place of contact and relation. By combining
the Babylonian concept of the encounter and the planetary concept
of the whole-earth, Neef creates a space - an astro-culture - in
which she can examine topics as varied as language, translation,
media, modernity, migration and the moon. In doing so, she
instigates a renewed cultural understanding receptive to the kinder
forms of cultural encounter and globalisation she hopes will come.
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