By Federico L. Silvestre, Sandra Alvaro, Guillermo Rodriguez Alonso
Chapter of the Book Planet Earth: Scientific Proposals to Solve Urgent Issues edited by Avelino Núñez Delgado
Ed Springer Nature, 2024
Abstract: This chapter aims to reflect on the artistic narratives and practices that have marked a shift from the ontopolitical rigidity of the Anthropocene to a possible response or Neganthropocene in the last twenty years. Against the backdrop of the emergence of an environmental awareness and the first artistic manifestations to respond to the harmful environmental impact of the positivist rationality associated with industrialisation and capital, this chapter links landscape and political ecology to present a typology of the most common landscapes to be depicted by European
creators in the twenty-first century. These artists, who have long been drawn to the signs of catastrophe or global collapse, have found inspiration in the intensive exploitation of organic resources, the geologies of disaster associated with mining, the air pollution caused by industry, property speculation and global maritime trade. The act of documenting and drawing attention to degraded landscapes, industrial ruins and ground-zero disaster sites is combined with the design and proposal of new ways of inhabiting the damaged environment and of collectively organising human,
animal and plant societies to bring about change.
Keywords Art · Landscape · Anthropocene · Capitalocene · Ecosofy and Ethico-aesthetics · Neganthropocene
Chapter at Springer Link First Online: 14 March 2024
López-Silvestre, F., Alvaro, S., Alonso, G.R. (2024). Reversing Ruins: Artistic Interventions for Recovering from Disaster Capitalism. In: Núñez-Delgado, A. (eds) Planet Earth: Scientific Proposals to Solve Urgent Issues. Springer, Cham. https://doi-org.are.uab.cat/10.1007/978-3-031-53208-5_5