RE: Figurative Painting - Anthropocene Artifacts: Human Relation with Nature
Thank you for the well-researched piece! Also I think that reconnecting with nature will be an important part of healing the worldview rift that has occurred and bringing people to leading lives that are more imbued with pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours....and a very interesting recent paper (Lumber et al. 2017) shows how activity such as "art" is more important for fostering a sense of connectivity with nature than cognitive interaction, such as learning natural history facts.
I love thinking and researching about the human-nature relationship, have followed in the hope of more! Steem on!
Lumber, R., Richardson, M. and Sheffield, D. (2017). Beyond knowing nature: Contact, emotion, compassion, meaning, and beauty are pathways to nature connection. PLoS ONE:1–24.
Thank you for the insightful comment. Yes, I agree. Much of this reminds me of Zerzan's work, especially his latest work, appropriately titled, Why Hope? Primitivism has so many valid points concerning the technocratic encroachment on all levels of human interaction.
Just looked that book up on Amazon - looks like an interesting read!
I'm interested in how activities like homesteading, bushcraft and, well specifically wild food foraging, can present opportunities for people to form an emotional 'relationship' with nature and foster respect for the environment, being almost a 'reaction' to the stresses of modernity, a spasmic response to reconnect with a primal activity practised by our ancestors.
Good for you. I think if you can reinvent yourself to live in such a primal state, the benefits both spiritually and biologically would be extremely evident and a welcome change. Zerzan speaks of this throughout much of his published works and essays. Incidentally, Kaczynski 's Industrial Society and Its Future is a good read if you can get past his notorious deeds as the uni-bomber. He makes the connection with industrial society and psychological suffering.
Cool, you're full of good tips. Yes the human rewilding movement I guess explicitly goes about the endeavour of naturalising and dedomesticating humans through activities like wild food foraging, as a well-defined conceptual endeavour, and many others are drawn to it instinctively. And for many others it's just a natural thing that they do in their day to day lives! I downloaded Kaczynski's work, will have a look.