Remodeling and symbiosis

Remodeling and symbiosis

Remodeling and symbiosis

"Ugliness and horror are important, because they compel our compassionate coexistence to go beyond condescending pity."-Timothy Morton, The Ecological Thought

Timothy Morton, a philosopher at Rice University, argues that we must confront nature not just with its beauty, but also with its darkness and weirdness -- an idea he calls "Dark Ecology." He opposed to human isolated from nature, and then make the human into a heterogeneous, alienated, the influence of the increasingly degraded, think to protect the enthusiasm of the natural world far from "nature" of reverence, allow a human being, the problem is we are in one of the signs of an ecological disaster, the point of ecology is to "disenchantment" human load on nature's infinite significance, To restore nature itself and admit that "natural filth" is the real existence of the natural world. Nature is not a "mirror" for humans to look at themselves, nor is it "other", but the nature of self. At the same time, humans are not a separate species from the world. In fact, we are intimately connected to everything else. "Humans" as a complex combination of human and non-human, the world is not fixed on the human scale.
In Timothy Morton's philosophical view, we can observe that under the capitalist ideology, simple environmentalism forms a binary opposition relationship between nature and human beings, and separates human beings from nature. Now we need a new form to reflect or construct a new vision. Using Dark Ecology theory and local construction to create an Inhabitable Landscape for an Alternative Economy in Mai Po, Hong Kong. While improving the environment of the border between Hong Kong and Shenzhen, allowing residents and animals to live in harmony and sustainable development, we are not trying to return it to the tranquility of nostalgia, but by implying the "hyper-natural" to replace the original separated environment, where we honestly admit our SINS and coexist with toxicity. Remodeling and symbiosis reflect an ideal vision, but it is also about destroying nature/human dichotomy, changing and confronting the current narrow consumer culture and environmentalist view of nature, and representing a better form of ecological criticism in the post-pandemic era.

"Ugliness and horror are important, because they compel our compassionate coexistence to go beyond condescending pity."-Timothy Morton, The Ecological Thought

Timothy Morton, a philosopher at Rice University, argues that we must confront nature not just with its beauty, but also with its darkness and weirdness -- an idea he calls "Dark Ecology." He opposed to human isolated from nature, and then make the human into a heterogeneous, alienated, the influence of the increasingly degraded, think to protect the enthusiasm of the natural world far from "nature" of reverence, allow a human being, the problem is we are in one of the signs of an ecological disaster, the point of ecology is to "disenchantment" human load on nature's infinite significance, To restore nature itself and admit that "natural filth" is the real existence of the natural world. Nature is not a "mirror" for humans to look at themselves, nor is it "other", but the nature of self. At the same time, humans are not a separate species from the world. In fact, we are intimately connected to everything else. "Humans" as a complex combination of human and non-human, the world is not fixed on the human scale.
In Timothy Morton's philosophical view, we can observe that under the capitalist ideology, simple environmentalism forms a binary opposition relationship between nature and human beings, and separates human beings from nature. Now we need a new form to reflect or construct a new vision. Using Dark Ecology theory and local construction to create an Inhabitable Landscape for an Alternative Economy in Mai Po, Hong Kong. While improving the environment of the border between Hong Kong and Shenzhen, allowing residents and animals to live in harmony and sustainable development, we are not trying to return it to the tranquility of nostalgia, but by implying the "hyper-natural" to replace the original separated environment, where we honestly admit our SINS and coexist with toxicity. Remodeling and symbiosis reflect an ideal vision, but it is also about destroying nature/human dichotomy, changing and confronting the current narrow consumer culture and environmentalist view of nature, and representing a better form of ecological criticism in the post-pandemic era.

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