Potentia
Assessment 3 final publication
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@aidancofa1002
Potentia
Assessment 3 final publication
by
@aidancofa1002
@hausercofa1002
@megbreaker
@nataliedabelstein1002
Potentia
Assessment 3 final publication
by
@aidancofa1002
@hausercofa1002
@megbreaker
@nataliedabelstein1002
Some more of our final collages
Reproduction and repetition was a consistent theme throughout our practice and was especially useful in creating a cohesive and unified aesthetic throughout our work
Some of our final digital collages, all elements created by our group
A combination of two analog/traditional processes - film photography and pencil/pen line drawings are digitally edited and combined into cohesive images to be reproduced into a final publication
Deep Ecology is the radical idea that all life has the right to exist, that no one species is more important than another. According to Judi Bari, “Nature does not exist to serve humans. Rather, hu...
The Deep Ecology movement, founded in the 1970′s and continuing to this day as a more concerned and drastic offshoot of environmentalism focuses on the humans and their extremely damaging impacts on to the ecology of the Earth
Their central tenants are:
The well-being and flourishing of human and nonhuman life on Earth have value in themselves (synonyms: intrinsic value, inherent value). These values are independent of the usefulness of the nonhuman world for human purposes.
Richness and diversity of life forms contribute to the realization of these values and are also values in themselves.
Humans have no right to reduce this richness and diversity except to satisfy vital human needs.
The flourishing of human life and cultures is compatible with a substantial decrease of the human population. The flourishing of nonhuman life requires such a decrease.
Present human interference with the nonhuman world is excessive, and the situation is rapidly worsening.
Policies must therefore be changed. These policies affect basic economic, technological, and ideological structures. The resulting state of affairs will be deeply different from the present.
The ideological change is mainly that of appreciating life quality (dwelling in situations of inherent value) rather than adhering to an increasingly higher standard of living. There will be a profound awareness of the difference between big and great.
Those who subscribe to the foregoing points have an obligation directly or indirectly to try to implement the necessary changes.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights published and supposed to be upheld by the United Nations.
It’s pretty interesting to see just how many are ignored or glossed over or are filled with massive grey areas with our current government and society.
Facts and statistics about the Environment - current issues of Greenland. Updated as of 2014.
A generalised list of current climate issues, specifically those affecting Greenland, one of the most at-risk nations/landmasses in regards to climate change.
The worst predicted impacts of climate change are starting to happen — and much faster than climate scientists expected
Great article detailing the real world affects of climate change and how they are effecting the contemporary world, as well as what we can expect in the near future.
Research into Zine Aesthetics
Research into Marxism and Environmental Theory
Research into Future Environmental Impacts
Effects of increasing greenhouse gas concentrations
Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere will continue to increase unless the billions of tons of our annual emissions decrease substantially. Increased concentrations are expected to:
• Increase Earth’s average temperature
• Influence the patterns and amounts of precipitation
• Reduce ice and snow cover, as well as permafrost
• Raise sea level
• Increase the acidity of the oceans
• Increase the frequency, intensity, and/or duration of extreme events
• Shift ecosystem characteristics
• Increase threats to human health
These changes will impact our food supply, water resources, infrastructure, ecosystems, and even our own health.
The magnitude and rate of future climate change will primarily depend on the following factors:
• The rate at which levels of greenhouse gas concentrations in our atmosphere continue to increase
• How strongly features of the climate (e.g., temperature, precipitation, and sea level) respond to the expected increase in greenhouse gas concentrations
• Natural influences on climate (e.g., from volcanic activity and changes in the sun’s intensity) and natural processes within the climate system (e.g., changes in ocean circulation patterns
Scientists use computer models of the climate system to better understand these issues and project future climate changes.
Past and present-day greenhouse gas emissions will affect climate far into the future
Many greenhouse gases stay in the atmosphere for long periods of time. As a result, even if emissions stopped increasing, atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations would continue to increase and remain elevated for hundreds of years. Moreover, if we stabilised concentrations and the composition of today’s atmosphere remained steady (which would require a dramatic reduction in current greenhouse gas emissions), surface air temperatures would continue to warm. This is because the oceans, which store heat, take many decades to fully respond to higher greenhouse gas concentrations. The ocean’s response to higher greenhouse gas concentrations and higher temperatures will continue to impact climate over the next several decades to hundreds of years.
Because it is difficult to project far-off future emissions and other human factors that influence climate, scientists use a range of scenarios using various assumptions about future economic, social, technological, and environmental conditions. The slideshow above provides more information on these scenarios in the “Estimating the Future” section.
Future Temperature Changes
We have already observed global warming over the last several decades. Future temperatures are expected to change further. Climate models project the following key temperature-related changes.
Felix Guattari - The Three Ecologies
Research -
Felix Guattari
THE THREE ECOLOGIES
Social ecology, mental ecology, and environmental ecology
Notes:
“brutal deterritorialization of the Third World, which simultaneously affects the cultural texture of populations, and devastates both climate and human immune defences”
“introjection of repressive power by the oppressed themselves. The principal difficulty here relates to the way in which unions and parties which are, in theory, struggling to defend the interests of the workers and the oppressed, reproduce pathogenic models which stifle freedom of expression and innovation in their own organizations”
“imperative to confront the effects of capitalist power on the mental ecology of daily life, whether individual, domestic, conjugal, neighbourly, creative, or personal-ethical”
“Capitalism seeks to gain power by controlling and neutralizing the maximum possible number of subjectivity’s existential refrains; capitalistic subjectivity is intoxicated with and anaesthetized by a collective sense of pseudo-eternity”
“If social and political practices are to be set back on their feet, we need to work for humanity, rather than simply for a permanent re- equilibration of the capitalist semiotic universe”
“All the indicators suggest that the increased productivity engendered by current technological revolutions will continue to rise exponentially”
Gregory Bateson - research
“I am not so naive and Utopian as to claim that there might be an analytical methodology guaranteed to eradicate the most deeply ingrained phantasms of reification of women, immigrants, the mad; nor that we might ultimately abolish either penal or psychiatric institutions. But it does seem to me that a generalization of the experiences of institutional analysis (in the hospital, the school, the urban environment … ) could profoundly shift the terms of the problem of mental ecology. A fundamental reconstruction of social mechanisms is necessary if we are to confront the ravages produced by integrated world capitalism”
“Computerization in particular has unleashed the potential for new forms of ‘exchange’ of value, new collective negotiations, whose ultimate product will be more individual, more singular, more dissensual forms of social action”
“Increasingly in future, the maintenance of natural equilibria will be dependent upon human intervention; the time will come, for example, when massive programmes will have to be set in train to regulate the relationship between oxygen, ozone, and carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere. In this perspective, environmental ecology could equally well be re-named 'machinic ecology’, since both cosmic and human practice are nothing if not machinic - indeed they are machines of war, in so far as 'Nature’ has always been at war with life! But however we name it, the race to conquer the mechano-sphere will have to begin imminently, if we are to deal with such immediate and simultaneous issues as the acceleration of techno-scientific 'progress’, and the massive growth surge in the global population”
“Even the human creation of new plant and animal species looms unavoidably on the horizon; the urgent task we face is, then, to fashion an ethics appropriate to a scenario that is both terrifying and fascinating, and, more importantly, a politics appropriate to the general destiny of humanity”
Selection of Photographs to be used as Backgrounds in our Zine
Futuristic Drawings to be Superimposed onto the Photos
Superimposed Images
Artist Inspiration - Beth Hoeckel