L’Antropocene o il mondo che ha ruotato il suo asse

The proposed naming of a new geological era, the Anthropocene, has not only enlivened the notoriously placid waters of geology, but has sparked artistic, political, anthropological, historical and philosophical imagination. Global warming challenges the imagination because it tests sensitive percept...

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Main Author: Laura Boella
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Milano University Press 2019-09-01
Series:Altre Modernità
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Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/12135
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description The proposed naming of a new geological era, the Anthropocene, has not only enlivened the notoriously placid waters of geology, but has sparked artistic, political, anthropological, historical and philosophical imagination. Global warming challenges the imagination because it tests sensitive perception with its distribution on micro and macro scales in time and space, presenting itself as an accumulation effect and at the same time as geographically scattered. The limits of everyday language are great, despite the literary and poetic efforts to express the unprecedented experience of a nature that has become unnatural, of a world that has rotated on its axis. In question, even before language, is sensitive perception. In a data and visual culture, do the models, the diagrams, the satellite images, the statistics, the "numbers" that flood the media, make us "see" and "feel" something? The visual arts and the exhibitions dedicated in recent years to the Anthropocene have become an important source of experience and knowledge of the phenomena of the climate crisis. They manage to make the invisible visible, to provoke shock by intensifying sensitivity, favoring through an emotional-sensitive experience the knowledge of an elusive reality. The work of the photograph Edward Burtynsky is discussed as a striking example of representation of the Anthropocene.
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spelling doaj.art-2283e8d53e154c70b653991d5fe333312023-09-02T13:56:40ZengMilano University PressAltre Modernità2035-76802019-09-0100324610.13130/2035-7680/1213510264L’Antropocene o il mondo che ha ruotato il suo asseLaura Boella0Università degli Studi di MilanoThe proposed naming of a new geological era, the Anthropocene, has not only enlivened the notoriously placid waters of geology, but has sparked artistic, political, anthropological, historical and philosophical imagination. Global warming challenges the imagination because it tests sensitive perception with its distribution on micro and macro scales in time and space, presenting itself as an accumulation effect and at the same time as geographically scattered. The limits of everyday language are great, despite the literary and poetic efforts to express the unprecedented experience of a nature that has become unnatural, of a world that has rotated on its axis. In question, even before language, is sensitive perception. In a data and visual culture, do the models, the diagrams, the satellite images, the statistics, the "numbers" that flood the media, make us "see" and "feel" something? The visual arts and the exhibitions dedicated in recent years to the Anthropocene have become an important source of experience and knowledge of the phenomena of the climate crisis. They manage to make the invisible visible, to provoke shock by intensifying sensitivity, favoring through an emotional-sensitive experience the knowledge of an elusive reality. The work of the photograph Edward Burtynsky is discussed as a striking example of representation of the Anthropocene.https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/12135Antropocenerappresentazione vs immaginazione, esperienza emozionale vs natura innaturalepercezione sensoriale vs realtà elusivaarti visive e crisi climatichecomunicazione pre-linguistica
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L’Antropocene o il mondo che ha ruotato il suo asse
Altre Modernità
Antropocene
rappresentazione vs immaginazione, esperienza emozionale vs natura innaturale
percezione sensoriale vs realtà elusiva
arti visive e crisi climatiche
comunicazione pre-linguistica
title L’Antropocene o il mondo che ha ruotato il suo asse
title_full L’Antropocene o il mondo che ha ruotato il suo asse
title_fullStr L’Antropocene o il mondo che ha ruotato il suo asse
title_full_unstemmed L’Antropocene o il mondo che ha ruotato il suo asse
title_short L’Antropocene o il mondo che ha ruotato il suo asse
title_sort l antropocene o il mondo che ha ruotato il suo asse
topic Antropocene
rappresentazione vs immaginazione, esperienza emozionale vs natura innaturale
percezione sensoriale vs realtà elusiva
arti visive e crisi climatiche
comunicazione pre-linguistica
url https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/12135
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