BLCKBX GAIA oder zur doppelten Grenze  des Gaia-Planeten

Frank-M. Raddatz

doi:10.31261/WSS.2023.07.04

Published: 2023-06-27

No. 7 (2023)

BLCKBX GAIA or to the double border of the Gaia planet

Frank-M. Raddatz

Section: Essays

https://doi.org/10.31261/WSS.2023.07.04

Abstract

The Anthropocene artwork is situated at the art/science interface because the Anthropocene is itself a scientific construction. Since the Anthropocene is based on effects of technological development that are by no means intentional, it cannot be contained by ethical imperatives. Rather, it is the result of an epistemology that fails to recognize actants as objects. Therefore, Bruno Latour calls for an aesthetics that propagates feedback effects. Such an epistemically centered art should limit itself to the multiplication of the possible and give up its autonomy. This doctrine is contradicted by Latour himself, insofar as the ensemble of actants, together with the celestial body Gaia populated by life in the Critical Zones, is an unknown and hardly scientifically penetrated phenomenon. Thus, a border of non-knowledge runs through ecological art, which is located in the middle of a transformation movement.

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Gaia , Bruno Latour , actants , border of non-knowledge , interface art/science

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Raddatz, F.-M. (2023). BLCKBX GAIA or to the double border of the Gaia planet. Wortfolge. Szyk Słów, (7), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.31261/WSS.2023.07.04

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Frank-M. Raddatz

drfraddatz@aol.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0138-6131

Affiliation:

RambaZambaTheater Berlin Germany

Bio Statement (e.g., department and rank)

Frank-M. Raddatz, PhD, publicist and dramaturge at numerous theaters. Most recently Berliner Ensemble and Volksbühne Berlin. Collaboration with Heiner Müller, Dimiter Gotscheff, Theodoros Terzopoulos, Einar Schleef, and Tadashi Suzuki. Artistic director of international cooperation Mania Thebaia (Düsseldorf/Epidaurus) 2002 and Promethiade Athen – Essen – Istanbul 2010. 2007 to May 2014 in the chief editorial office of “Theater der Zeit”, since then “Lettre International”, Berlin. Member of the ITI. Teaches at various universities. In 2019, he founded the »Theatre of the Anthropocene« (www.theaterdesanthropozaen.de) together with the marine biologist Antje Boetius and the President of the
Humboldt University of Berlin Sabine Kunst. Numerous publications with and on Heiner Müller, as on aesthetics, politics and literature of the theatre. In recent years especially on questions of an Anthropocene stage. Most recently in “Lettre International” Berlin. Last books: Heiner Müller, The American Leviathan, Suhrkamp, 2020; Das Drama des Anthropozän, Theater der Zeit, 2021.

No. 7 (2023)
Published: 2023-12-18

eISSN: 2544-4093

10.321261/WSS

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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