“In times of bleakness, it is useful to revive our ability to imagine a better future.” Adrian J. Ivakhiv This is the text of a lecture that the author gave on August 16 of this year at the seminar “From the Anthropocene to the Symbiocene or Paths to a Life-Supporting Civilization” (Toulcův dvůr, Prague Hostivař, August 12-18, 2024). It discusses the birth of the idea of the Symbiocene (ecological civilization) and presents two…
Category: Summer seminar of the Traveling University of Nature
Freya Mathews: Let animals and nature do more of the work
As part of this year's eighth seminar of the Traveling University of Nature "Anima Animalia and the Rights of Nature" (DOTEK in Horní Maršov), on Thursday, August 11, leading Australian eco-philosopher Freya Mathews gave an online lecture "Let Animals and Nature Do More Work", in which she summarized some of the conclusions of her latest book The Dao of Civilization (Tao Civilizace, 2023). In it, she reflected on the...