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Das Hauptwerk des amerikanischen Philosophen und Pädagogen John Dewey (1859-1952), im Original bereits 1925 erschienen, erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung. In diesem Buch untersucht Dewey die Beziehungen zwischen Erfahrung und Natur und gelangt dadurch zu seiner Auffassung von der instrumentellen Natur der Gegenstände wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnis. - Neben seiner Schrift "Die Erneuerung der Philosophie" (ID 7/90) für umfassende Philosophiebestände. (3)

This article considers the ethical implications of a stance toward or relation with the natural environment that could be characterized as dominant across many sectors of not only the economy but consumption patterns generally. Despite popular perception or denial of climate change over the past decades, this is an implicit relation toward the collateral risks and damages to ecosystems by human activity. Not only are livelihoods sustained on the basis of natural resources but the direct costs of hydrocarbon development are borne locally in the environment. For some, this is understood to be without a personal cost despite the fears expressed. The article quotes from interviews with residents. It stages a broader, continuing conversation about the ambivalence of being dependent on hydrocarbons. This article explores the difficulty of developing an ethical engagement with the nonhuman and natural ecosystems when they are relegated to the status of what will be referred to as "bare nature." Rather than state of exception or standing reserve, nonhuman nature is only present as a form of absence and as nonentities and does not present an ethical challenge or claim.

In seinen späten Schriften unternimmt Friedrich Engels den Versuch, Karl Marx und Charles Darwin zusammenzudenken. Hellsichtig zeigt er in wissensgeschichtlichen und zeitkritischen Beobachtungen, "dass wir keineswegs die Natur beherrschen, wie ein Eroberer ein fremdes Volk beherrscht - sondern dass wir mit Fleisch und Blut und Hirn ihr angehören und mitten in ihr stehn". Eindringlich warnt er vor der Selbstzerstörung einer Menschheit, die diesen Zusammenhang missachtet: "Schmeicheln wir uns indes nicht zu sehr mit unsern menschlichen Siegen über die Natur. Für jeden solchen Sieg rächt sie sich an uns." Auswahl und Kommentare erschließen einen Grundlagentext für unsere Zeit

Laura Aguilar's Nature Self Portraits treat the human body as another feature in landscapes. In the series, Aguilar positions herself in the center of her photographs, nude, often with her back to the camera. The curve of her back echoes the rocks, her black hair in the wind recalls the thin fingers of desert trees. The photographs are at once playful and beautiful, peaceful and provocative. This photo essay includes work from Aguilar's series, plus a similar work by California photographer Judy Dater, which influenced Aguilar.

Nature can be collected in many forms and shapes: live animals have been locked up in cages, displayed in zoos and menageries and their hides and dried body parts have been used as part of installations in galleries and studies. Plants from far-away countries have been cultivated in botanical gardens and in hothouses. Furthermore, the depiction of medicinal plants and of prized animals was regarded as an important part of the decorative schemes, in an attempt to bring nature indoors. Recent

This artwork work was selected and exhibited as part of a landscape/environment project in two parts entitled Against Nature; Exhibition, Symposium & Publication. An exhibition and a publication that looks at the infection of are current understandings of landscapes, geography and natural histories. And with this a position to political and ethical notions of our planet/habitat that are unavoidable when picturing anything we may have traditionally termed landscape. A situation has arisen where scientific notions for example are impossible to divorce from the ideas and views presented. Multiple object and print media will be dominant in the show and the publication itself will indeed be printed. This will contain essays and commission art works and not operate as a catalogue but another site.