Potential Worlds: Planetary Memories and Eco-Fictions

The ecological crisis the world is
currently experiencing calls for an urgent rethinking of our
relationship to nature, natural resources and the entirety of life on
planet Earth, as well as that of humans between each other. It also
highlights that time has come for repurposing coexistence, aided by
post-human thought and technological advancement, and to realise that
humans are merely part of rather than the centre of our world.

This
book questions forms of knowledge developed in the course of annexation
of the environment and asks which ideas of nature might emerge from the
current crisis and how we might perceive nature in the future.
Positions of 36 artists from around the world examine the ecological and
social consequences of the past and ongoing conquests of land for
purposes of accumulating power and resources.

Essays by Benjamin
H. Bratton, T. J. Demos, Reza Negarestani, and Jussi Parikka shed light
on aspects such as colonialism, post-humanism, ecology, and artistic
adaption of new technologies, and investigate the potentials of mankind
in alliance with nature and the role of art in this undertaking as a
technological, scientific, and social experiment. Concise texts on the
work of the participating artists and an introduction by the editors
round out this illustrated book.