„Umění nás učí, že jsme vytvořeni … z nekonečného počtu příběhů. Nejsme ´mechanickými brouky´… ale spíš mnohobájnými osobami – bytostmi z mnoha příběhů, vždy žijícími nějakou tajuplnou zápletkou.Thomas Moore Záměr uspořádat výstavu malíře Jana Pražana v Galerii Jane McAdam Freud v Příboře (6. 2.-18. 4. 2026), tedy v kulturním kontextu, který rezonuje s odkazem díla významného rakouského psychologa a příbořského rodáka Sigmunda…
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Jiří Zemánek: Architecture and urbanism in symbiosis with natural systems
“It is time to move from simply mitigating the negatives to optimizing the positives.” – Sarah Ichioka and Michael Pawlyn This is the text of a lecture that the author gave at the ninth seminar of the PILGRIM Traveling University of Nature “From the Anthropocene to the Symbiocene or Paths to a Life-Supporting Civilization” in Toulcov dvůr in Prague Hostivař on Friday, August 16, 2024. Introduction: Fuller, Register and Wines Introduction to this…
Jiří Zemánek: From the Anthropocene to the Symbiocene
“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…
Jiří Zemánek: Between the human body and the breathing earth – about the books The Magic of the Senses and Becoming an Animal by David Abram
“Becoming the earth. Becoming an animal. And becoming – in this way – fully human.” David Abram The first book by American philosopher, ecologist and visionary David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous (1996; Czech: Kouzlo smyslů, DharmaGaia 2013) has been hailed as a groundbreaking work of ecological philosophy and ethics that magically overturns the dichotomies between culture and nature, between…
Jiří Zemánek: Where there is life, there are rights... or From the Anthropocene to the Symbiocene
“A new wave of change is flowing through the zeitgeist, bringing with it a desire for action, for fundamental change, and for humanity to be reintegrated into the community of Earth.” Cormac Cullinan This is an abbreviated text of a lecture on the rights of nature at the eighth seminar of the Pilgrim Anima Animalia and the Rights of Nature Association’s Traveling University of Nature in Horní Maršov, given on August 10, 2023. The steeply rising crisis…
Sergey Zimov
“We must restore order to nature. Then it will take care of the climate.” Sergey A. Zimov Sergey Afanasyevich Zimov (born 1955) is a Russian geophysicist specializing in Arctic and subarctic ecology. He graduated from the Far Eastern State Technical University in Vladivostok, is the director of the North-Eastern Scientific Station, which he founded in 1977 near the town of Chersky in Yakutsk, and is a senior scientist at the Pacific…
Jiří Zemánek: Thomas Berry and the "great work"
“The great illusion of the industrial age is the idea that we can develop our human well-being by plundering the planet and destroying its geological and biological structure, including its functioning. From the idea that what is good for humans is also good for the Earth, we must come to the understanding that what is good for the complex community of life on Earth is good for…
Jiří Zemánek: How to revive the world and human culture?
Our association PILGRIM held its fifth seminar of the Traveling University of Nature from August 10-15 this year at the Rychleby Ecocenter near Javorník in Silesia and at the Dance Hall in Račí údolí, this time entitled "Everything around me lives, feels like me... paths to a regenerative culture". We addressed the question of how to move away from the current destruction of ecosystems, extinction of species and climate change...
Jiří Zemánek: On synergy I. or How to think and create from within the world – lessons from Frey Mathews
To live is to dance with an unknown partner whose steps we can never fully predict... David Abram (The Invisible World) How do we overcome that detached attitude that is characteristic of our Western objectifying approach to reality and how do we "return to the world", how do we reanimate it and renew our ethical relationship with it? How do we open ourselves to synergy with humans and with other animals...
Jiří Zemánek: Karel Hynek Mácha's Pilgrimage from Prague to Sněžka or How to Become Earthlings Again
“My love walked with me – over a high mountain, higher than the mountain I walked over…” Karel Hynek Mácha (Two Songs of Gypsies) Karel Hynek Mácha was a true poet-pilgrim who, during his short life, undertook a number of long walking expeditions across Bohemia and beyond its borders, to Venice. His literary work was particularly inspired by his travels to…