The Art(e)facts Project
The Earth stands deconstructed as a financialized globe and a technological orb in the Anthropocene. It is the “planet” to be “saved” according to climate action narratives. The Art(e)facts Project [TAP] emerges from an understanding that hegemonic sustainability sciences, green capitalism, and industry-led energy transition narratives often bypass the cultural glue that historical conceptions and indigenous, pre-modern epistemologies of the earth have made the planet a safe, habitable, and thrivable commons.
It asks: how might we re-imagine the earth as the construction of cultural imaginaries instead? What political potentialities emerge when we deconstruct techno-futuristic visions of the earth and reimagine superintelligence as cultural wisdom: the earth as common wealth? To reconstruct lost world views requires humanistic interference in sustainability paradigms and humanistic engagement with the art(e)facts by which we come to know, understand, and inhabit the earth. TAP charts a way forward.
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