ANTHROPOCENE – How nature is applied in the media/ Human impact on the environment/ ecology towards the media…..

Human impact – reasons for it 

Environment 

       Anthrpocene (what we have entered) – declared as a new epoch (era)

Defined as a geological time period, where humans have influenced altered (we are affecting the earth in every single way) eg depths of the ocean we would find things to trace back or 

Search welcome to the anthropocene – implied that we have this responsibility 

TJ Demos, 2017 – the idea of the anthropocene in a media way there is a military state and corporate which has started it to a degree 

Nature has always been a product of human kind – production of nature  smith N 1984 

Its there for our use 

Progress or increase of capital accumulation and the expansion of economical development, thus material substratum ism ore and more the product of social production and the dominant axes between man and nature 

Humanities relationship with nature 

• ideas mainly come from the romantic image 
• Wanderer above the sea and fog, Freidrich – implicates the idea of the beautiful and the sublime, asthetics where the relationship between the humans and the grand or Terrifying aspects of nature 
• a image of Beauty (which is passive)is a  pleasure experience 
• Sublime – is what has the power to destroy us  humans (nature)

Research Romanticism 

10 min 

Burke – the sublime has a casual structure that is unlike 

John Martin “Apocalypse” Tate 

Standing on the idea of the sublime, echoed in cm through disaster movies 

Hobbesian Nature – Research 

Goyas, fight with cudgels, a Hobbesian sense of nature, dragging them into nature 

Without a social contract a hierarchy or social order society breaks down into a state of natural carnal law/ savagely 

Conflicting Concepts of Nature: Rousseauian Nature more balanced 

Rousseaus  1754

 theory of the natural human: the laws are corrupting humans, earth does not belong to us 

Thomas Gaimsborough 

What is the relationship between man and nature – it is a possession and the couple have power over it, nature is perceived as order and controlled 

How does this new epoch of Anthropocence relate to image technologies 

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How does the Anthropocene enter into visuality, and what are its politics of representations ?

• demos 
• Visual representation of data 

World of matter – international art and media project – presents a website with content of critical climate change and presents the epoch in a different way 

As humans we do have an determination of changing the way of the epoch 

• eg Ursular Biemann, Carbon Eacologies, forest law 2014 
• The connection is hidden and this artistic way shows how nature is attached/ linked to nature and if it is invisible not good ….
• Ikea room 

Potash mine 2017 

Saw mils Nigeria 2016 

Highlights things like population and also resources being taken 

Mississipi An Anthropocene river HKW

Gravesend Steve McQueen 2007 Colbalt thats in your mobile phone 

Drawing colonel references through slave trade also mining extracting – conga 

Dehumanised mo humans within this section of the film 

Juxtaposed with pictures from documentary footage from Africa, workers working in basic conditions have no rudimental tools, area not too picturesque 

Anhrpocene involves this extraction, and use of minerals, glosses over the ethical and moral connections, doing the opposite raising moral questions 

Making analogies between economy and the past 

Deadly parallel, for shock value 

Is a new future possible 

Social politics 

More of the visual world 

Look at examples of how it effects climate change 

Contrast it with academic sources 

Maybe thats where the is rhetoric is coming from 

Alternatives forms of visualisations 

How the visulaition on the world enables us to how it affects 

Humans and nature how its changed the current age 

Nature and evolution is tired 

Humans are opposed thumbs then didn’t nature evolve to destroy itself 

The only reason we can destroy things is because of hands and brains