Notes on the soil soul in Brazil
Keywords:
Ecology, Soil, Environmental degradation, Modernity-coloniality, Contemporary art, Social sculpture, Gaia, ChthoniaAbstract
Social, environmental and subjective ecologies affect each other. In the urgency of the climate crisis we are experiencing, soil becomes a category of analysis. Although it is in the fertile soil that life on the planet is sustained, its invisibility reveals the dynamics of social and subjective processes. The history of colonization-modernization that has trivialized environmental devastation in Brazil has produced monotonous landscapes, degraded soils, devastated forests and polluted seas. The disregard for the announced disaster remains at the basis of modern Western, anthropocentric and Cartesian thought, which separates nature and culture, mind and body, thinking and acting. The mythical duality of the earth points to other meanings for the process of destruction and for the catastrophes that follow.
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