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The end of high culture and the Anthropocene
Thesis Eleven Pub Date : 2020-09-28 , DOI: 10.1177/0725513620963506
Harriet Johnson 1
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Theories of a new phase of earth history, the Anthropocene, position human world-making activity as a bio-geological force. Social interventions into earth systems have been extensive and malignant, altering the earth’s surface, atmosphere, oceans, and systems of nutrient cycling. To adapt and respond to emerging planetary dangers requires the collaboration of scholars from many different disciplines. In this paper, I argue that a coalition of the arts and sciences might draw upon György Márkus’s extensive studies of the topography of ‘high’ culture. I reconstruct Márkus’s conceptual map of the arts and sciences as regions of ‘high’ cultural activity, each with their own criteria of value yet subject to an integral unity and shared ambition. Both regions of ‘high’ culture aim to create original works of significance for an engaged public. I then examine the implications of Márkus’s claim that the classical vocation of robust, public-oriented culture has run aground. The field of problems that this paper traverses are not the ecological crises of the Anthropocene per se. I attend rather to Márkus’s account of the neoliberal erosion of cultural infrastructure where democratic publics might engage with such problems.

中文翻译:

高等文化和人类世的终结

地球历史新阶段的理论,即人类世,将人类创造世界的活动定位为一种生物地质力量。对地球系统的社会干预是广泛而恶性的,改变了地球表面、大气、海洋和养分循环系统。适应和应对新出现的行星危险需要来自许多不同学科的学者的合作。在本文中,我认为艺术与科学的联合可能会借鉴 György Márkus 对“高级”文化地形的广泛研究。我将 Márkus 的艺术和科学概念图重建为“高级”文化活动的区域,每个区域都有自己的价值标准,但又受制于整体的统一和共同的抱负。“高”文化的两个区域都旨在为参与的公众创作具有重要意义的原创作品。然后,我研究了马尔库斯关于稳健的、面向公众的文化的经典使命已经搁浅的说法的含义。本文所涉及的问题领域并不是人类世本身的生态危机。我更愿意关注 Márkus 对文化基础设施的新自由主义侵蚀的描述,民主公众可能会在这些问题上参与其中。
更新日期:2020-09-28
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