https://futureofseattle.weebly.com/ My group chose to use pictures as the central media because they invite several different perspectives. While we provide supplementary material on the website, the viewer immediately forms an opinion or thought on the subject once they view the photos. If the information we provided does not necessarily stir the reader, maybe their interpretation of the photo will. As… Read more »
You’ve likely seen the famous Norman Rockwell quartet from 1943: the freedom series. The work has always affected me—I’m a sucker for realism, how the artist grasps light, the details of fabric fold and skin’s ripple. Note the prominent vein on a knuckle, the crispy glisten of Grandma’s holiday fowl. (Putting aside the obvious lack of racial and socioeconomic diversity—considering… Read more »
cbacon16Comments Off on Disillusionment: Seeing the Earth as it Is
Creative Project Link I sought to illustrate “Earth as it is”, and the trajectory on which humanity, and industrialized, individualistic societies in particular, has been on to create and perpetuate our current ecological and social condition. It is our prerogative as members of the global North to become aware of how our obsession with material accumulation and our ignorance of… Read more »
Alex, Willa, Simone, John, and I assembled an informative and interactive website for our action project on the topic of climate refugees. The topic seeks to draws awareness to the interdependent nature of our global system. Climatic crises, caused by Western overconsumption, will displace millions of people in historically exploited areas, to flood countries that enabled their displacement. Ultimately, our responsibility to… Read more »
KarenComments Off on Veterans, moral injury, and the Anthropocene
For Americans who take Veterans’ Day seriously, it’s a time to honor those who have served in the military—particularly those who have made “the ultimate sacrifice.” I suspect that for most us though, today is primarily an occasion for a three-day weekend. That’s generally been my perspective, in part because honoring vets is too often confused with endorsing US military… Read more »
TovaComments Off on Fear of Death and Sacrifice in the Anthropocene
In Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, Roy Scranton describes how we must accept our death as a civilization so that we can move forward and adapt to the new reality of the harsh climate conditions we are creating. His argument surprised me because the word “Anthropocene” implies that humans have been handed the controls, and it made me realize… Read more »
Sacrifice stands at the center of the Anthropocene. The process of approaching this issue will require wealthy nations, such as the United States, to sacrifice various cultural norms to vastly improve sustainability. Although this act of sacrificing luxuries and excess seems reasonable, it also appears implausible. Such doubt in the nation’s ability to make such adjustments stems from the nation’s… Read more »
