Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet with Keynote speech by Ursula K. Le Guin
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2020
- On May 8, 2014, The Humanities Institute held a multi-day conference seeking to understand if humans and other species can continue to inhabit the earth together. Through noticing, describing, and imagining, participants aim to renew conversation about life on earth.
Ursula LeGuin is the author of over thirty novels, children’s books, and short story, poetry and essay collections, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. LeGuin’s work includes the Earthsea and Hainish Cycle novels and short fiction; The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories; Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems; and The Catwings Collection.
If you are interested in exploring an imaginary world where plants have language and art, I recommend "Birds of Maine"
very spiritual situation.
1:55 we came a long way since the popularization of qr codes lol
"A house without windows is unthinkable" ... "It's one of those big stores that don't have any windows. Those are horrible places."
Yup, I'm with ya. They really are soulless monstrosities.
Evolution or extinction? Are we able to learn to live in harmony with each other, nature and technology including AI? Sustainability not profitability. Mindfulness and self love, respect not exploitation. Our species faces a major die off, the population is passing the peak, passing a tipping point where our population goes from exponential growth to a transition to a new sustainable relationship with the ecosystem that has sustained us up until now. That downward curve can be as steep as a cliff which falls to zero, extinction, or it can begin steeply and recover as it returns to historic levels of sustainability, pre-technology levels such as pre-Columbian America. This could lead to a selection pressure that would produce a new species of hominid, speciation. The curve could be more gentle and could include technological solutions that would level off at a population that could both live more harmoniously with nature and each other and incorporate technology that would represent an evolution into a new species of technologically enhanced humanity, cyborgs. Taking life to other planets, terraforming and evolving new species of humans who could survive other planetary ecologies is another path that will require technologies including genetic engineering to reach for the stars. Managing these changes in a moral and humane way brings hope to a future that appears very scary from our selfish and ethnocentric perspectives. Keep up the good work or as John Perkins says "Dream True" instead of living like the hero of his book "Confessions of an Economic Hitman." Be blessed, you are a blessing. Aboriginal cultures have much to teach us.
I am late but trying my best ❤
this direction or call it new philosophy to even try look beyond the Anthropocene and shit capitalism ... is inspiring yet still we are trapped inside this collapsing civilisation.
"we are trapped inside this collapsing civillization"
I guess we kinda are, huh? but what do we do know :>(
Something better might rise from within it, if not from its ashes
32:33 Whiteness
What is this SJW crap? 🤔
What a thoughtful, considered conjecture. You need to towel off after such brave intellectual exertion?
"...To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed."
"SJW crap"
You appear quite lost.
The Ben Shapiro shortbus is waiting down the street. Its low on fuel and decent drivers but surely it will get you to your destination.
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@@jamesking1495 bro just listen to the words and go touch some grass