The Anthosphere In The Antiaesthetics

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We have six spheres in planet earth, atmosphere; the gas part, where the clouds are formed, hydrosphere; the liquid part such as ocean, rivers, lakes, lithosphere; the solid part, biosphere; the living part such as forests, cryosphere; the ice part and the anthrosphere; where the humans are living, the part where modified by people. When one sphere is affected, chain reactions will happen, all spheres will be affected. I want to discuss in my propose thesis is the Anthropocene. Anthrosphere is the definition of planet earth, whether we like it or not.
Our rapid industrialization and growth are obviously not without consequences, but tracking and identifying environmental "tipping points" of no return is not an easy task, as evidenced by the …show more content…

This antiaesthetics is not a classificatory scheme of the beautiful, or a style of formal art practice, but what Jacques Rancière (2004) calls “an ‘aesthetics’ at the core of politics . . as the system of a priori forms determining what presents itself to sense experience.” The body can no longer make sense of what is presented to it. We cannot articulate what we perceive, namely, that the climate is wrong—too hot, too dry, too wet, or all of the above. Any suggestion to this effect is at once challenged. There is no effective climate change politics at the national or international level. Since the intensification and expansion of the global social movements in 2011, in which the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement built on the foundations laid since the Zapatista uprising in 1994, we as commoners have nonetheless placed our bodies where they are not supposed to be seen, in part as a claim to that perception. This claim is what I call the “right to look” (Mirzoeff 2011). It is not a right in the sense of human rights, for declarations and charters. It is not a gaze but a look mutually exchanged between people in a consensual “invention of the other” (Derrida 1998). In the language of the social movements, it is not a demand. It is the process of consensus, producing the claim to a political subjectivity and collectivity. This invention is common, and it creates a commons when it comes into being. For there is an exchange but no creation of a surplus. It is therefore sustainable. You, or your group, allow another to find you, and, in so doing, you find both the other and yourself. It means requiring the recognition of the other in order to have a place from which to claim a right and to determine what is right. It is the claim to a subjectivity that has the autonomy to arrange and rearrange the relations of the visible and the