Essays on Activism in the Age of Collapse
by Lieven de Cauter
- Author(s)
- Lieven de Cauter
- Publication
- Rotterdam : nai010, 2021
- Scope
- 240 Pages, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 9789462086111
In this book, activist and philosopher Lieven de Cauter investigates the idea that if we want to avoid collapse, we have to end the Anthropocene – the geological era of the gigantic, devastating impact of our species on planet Earth. It might even be, he argues, that the collapse of our current, growth-maximizing system is the only hope for the biosphere. Offering case studies on urban activism alongside more general reflections on civic action and social movements, De Cauter moves from the political melancholy caused by the near certainty of climate disaster and meditations on the end of ‘the Age of Man’, towards reflections on more hopeful events of our times, like the resurgence of the commons arguing it contains the seeds of another worldview and another politics. From this new perspective identity and heterotopia, other spaces as places for otherness, can be read in a new light. This collection of writings closes with texts on the corona crisis.
- Keywords
- post anthropocene , aesthetics - critical aesthetics , social practice - community art
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 3: Antropoceen
- Remarks
- Incl. notes, origins of the text
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