![]() ![]() The body is no longer experienced as a natural system integrated with other natural systems. Solnit points out that this excess of interiority obliterates our relation to material origins and to our own bodies. (Also the reason for the environmental problems our planet is facing but this aspect will not be dealt with here.)Ĭity life today is lived largely indoors with a lot of involvement in non-physical worlds (television, internet, telephony). ![]() ![]() As Rebecca Solnit reminds us, it is a world in which everything speaks not of nature and her processes but of its makers in their resistance to those processes. The world we live in today is based on this vision of technological achievement. But in this vision the purpose of knowledge was proposed as utilitarian, - the domination of nature. Seventeenth century scientists (Descartes, Bacon, and Newton) made discoveries that brought us scientific method and a vision of secular progress through technological achievement. Contemporary Art and the Perceived Self-sufficiency of Urban Life ![]()
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