Art and Sustainability Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity Image Vol 25 2nd Edition by Sacha Kagan ISBN 383761803X 978-3837618037

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ISBN 10: 383761803X

ISBN 13: 978-3837618037 

Author: Sacha Kagan 

What is the cultural dimension of sustainability? This book offers a thought-provoking answer, with a theoretical synthesis on cultures of sustainability. Describing how modernity degenerated into a culture of unsustainability, to which the arts are contributing, Sacha Kagan engages us in a fundamental rethinking of our ways of knowing and seeing the world. We must learn not to be afraid of complexity, and to re-awaken a sensibility to patterns that connect. With an overview of ecological art over the past 40 years, and a discussion of art and social change, the book assesses the potential role of art in a much needed transformation process.

Table of contents:

1. The Culture and Art of Unsustainability
Introduction
Section 1: The culture of unsustainability
Section 2: The art of unsustainability
Conclusion
2. Toward Culture(s) of Sustainability, Step One: Systems Thinking and the Limits of Holism
Introduction
Section 1: Some basics of Systems Thinking
Section 2: The Systems View of Life
Section 3: The Systems View of Society
Section 4: Ervin Laszlo’s “Systems View of the World” and the limits of Holism
Section 5: Cybernetic apparatuses and the risk of a technological drift
3. Toward Culture(s) of Sustainability, Step Two: From the ‘Big Picture’ to the Culture of Complexity
Introduction
Section 1: Complexity: Edgar Morin’s ‘method’
Section 2: Transdisciplinarity
Conclusion to chapters 2 and 3
4. Aesthetics of Sustainability
Introduction
Section 1: From Aesthetics, environmental aesthetics and ecological aesthetics to aesthetics of sustainability
Section 2: From Bateson’s sensibility to the pattern which connects, to a sensibility to patterns that connect
Section 3: The sensibility to complexity
Section 4: The transdisciplinary sensibility
Section 5: The phenomenological and animistic sensibility to a more-than-human world
Conclusion
5. Ecological Art
Introduction
Section 1: Land art, environmental art, ecological art
Section 2: Precursors and pioneers
Section 3: Exemplary directions in environmental/ecological art
Section 4: The “Reenchantment of Art” according to Suzi Gablik
Section 5: The Monongahela Conference on Post-Industrial Community Development
Section 6: The exhibition Ecovention
Conclusion
6. Sustainability and Ecology as keywords: a decade of contemporary art
Introduction
Section 1: “Eco-centric topics” in contemporary art
Section 2: Exhibitions on art and sustainability
Section 3: Post-environmental art: The exhibition Greenwashing
Conclusion
7. Fostering Change: Art and Social Conventions
Introduction
Section 1: Double entrepreneurship in conventions
Section 2: Polity Conventions: The political setting for double entrepreneurship in conventions
Conclusion
Conclusion
Appendices
Appendix 1: The subconscious and the ‘eco-’ in autoecopoïesis: a speculative excursus
Appendix 2: Deutsche Zusammenfassung: Kunst und (Nicht-)Nachhal igkeit
Bibliography

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