Eerie Systems and Saudade for a Lost Nature

Bibliographic Data

ID5848780
AuthorsPaul Goodfellow (0000-0002-9612-5339, Northumbria University, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume8
Issue4
Pages124-124
Publication date2019-09-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArts (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2076-0752 • E-ISSN: 2076-0752
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/arts8040124
OpenAlexW2976017888
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited19

This paper considers Art's engagement with the socio-ecological systems in operation in the world. Drawing from both environmental and art history, this paper employs the Deleuzean concept of the fold to suggest three overlapping periods of ecological-systems awareness over the past sixty years. This paper demonstrates how we have shifted our attention from a material engagement with the Earth to a primary engagement with systems which describe and simulate the Earth. This shift in attention to secondary information and an enfoldment within systems, defined as the Post-Systems Condition, manifests in the aesthetic quality of the eerie and a profound sense of saudade or longing for a lost nature

Earth system science · Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems