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Année : 2025

GAIA ALTERNATIVE REALITIES symbiocene systole diastole

Truly honored to receive an invitation to explore the rich Ottoman cultural landscape of Ankara and to give a lecture at Bilkent University’s Department of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture in Türkiye, on May 6, 2025.

Lecture [on site]
6 May 2025

Department of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture
Bilkent University
Ankara, Türkiye

Despite the upheavals of the XXth Environmental Humanities having renewed approaches to Gaia biospheres, the plasticity of our predatory ontologies and ethics should lead us to more radicalities in our prospectives. The economics of ecological crises nurtured by speculative anthropotechnics leave serious doubts about the alternatives or progress made by conscious ecology’s experts.

Epistemological anarchism and regenerative indigenous engineering, if they appear as innovative and redeeming solutions, must abandon noxious consensuses with self-serving political ecologies. By speculating alternative realities, neoliberal ecologies are exploiting disoriented communities with novel environmental burdens. Switching between vile resource exploitation and guilt-washing retreat, this amaranthine systole diastole might seem fatalistic if one did not know that countless cultures have never been involved with any.

These are the customs and ethics that we tirelessly relay so that their absence within environmental pedagogies does not completely enshroud them. Those timeless Symbiocene whose only fault is to be responsible within their sovereign regions, committing themselves to neither destroying nor offending anyone for the benefit of a few.

Engaged in various parts of the world to acknowledge their rejuvenation, we will explore some of their genuine Landscape Political Philosophy.