The Disorienting Aesthetics of Mashed-Up Anthropocene Environments
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8105045 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marcello Di Paola (0000-0002-8607-9447, Department of Humanities University of Palermo, corresponding author), Serena Ciccarelli |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 85-106 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0963-2719 • E-ISSN: 1752-7015 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3197/096327121x16141642287791 |
| OpenAlex | W3171693061 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 45 |
This paper describes the disorienting aesthetics of some environments that are characteristic of the Anthropocene. We refer to these environments as ‘mashed-up’ and present three dimensions – phenomenological, epistemological and narrative – of the aesthetic disorientation they can trigger. We then advance the suggestion that a rich, nuanced and meaningful aesthetic experience of mashed-up Anthropocene environments (MAEs) calls for a mode of appreciation grounded on performative practices of aesthetic familiarisation with particular MAEs and entities and processes thereof. Familiarisation with MAEs, we further note, can have disorienting codas of its own. It can reveal and highlight, rather than eliminate or alleviate, the solid strangeness of Earth even in the systemically humanised world of the Anthropocene, and it can expose and tie at least some of our agency, identity and sources of meaning in life to the same unstable evolvability of particular MAEs
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Anthropocene · Art · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Identity (music · Literature · Meaning (existential · Narrative · Performative utterance · Sociology · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Philosophy
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Thinking like a Mall
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Dark Ecology
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Against Narrativity
Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene
Ecology without Nature
Reassembling the Social
Some Challenges for Narrative Accounts of Value
When Ethics and Aesthetics Are One and the Same
A Place for Stories
Situating the Anthropocene
Wild experiments at the Oostvaardersplassen
Line of Wreckage
Make kin, not cities! Multispecies entanglements and 'becoming-world' in planning theory
Humans and technology in the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |