ARTH-336 Anthropocene Aesthetics
This seminar in contemporary art history and theory explores ecological art in the era of anthropogenic climate change. The course’s guiding question will be: what forms might an aesthetic experience of nature take when it no longer privileges the human observer, but rather cultivates an equality and reciprocity among all forms of life? Possible answers will be drawn from recent work in art history, Black studies, Indigenous studies, continental philosophy, and science and technology studies. The course’s topics will include: post-Enlightenment aesthetics of nature, biopower, vitalism, post- and anti-humanisms, plant philosophies, bacteria and fungi studies, and deep time. These theoretical frameworks will be complemented with case studies on a global array of contemporary artists.
Seminar (12)
Credits
1
Notes
Not open to first year students.