Decolonizing Nature : Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology
Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology
<p>/ author T.J. Demos. - Berlin : Sternberg Press, 2016. - 296 p. : ill. ; 21 cm </p>
ISBN: 9783956790942
Art historian T. J. Demos considers the creative proposals of artists and activists for ways of life that bring together ecological sustainability, climate justice, and radical democracy, at a time when such creative proposals are urgently needed. Decolonizing Nature presents a timely critical analysis of the parameters and limitations of philosophical, artistic, and curatorial models responding to anthropogenic climate change. The book makes an impassioned argument for a post-anthropocentric political ecology, in which the aesthetic realm enjoins with Indigenous philosophies and environmental activism to challenge the neoliberal corporate-state complex. It invites us to confront tough questions on how we might collectively reimagine and realize environmental justice for humans and nonhumans alike.
