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Hikurangi

Doors to the wilderness

Levi Bryant speculates on the kind of thinking necessary for a future that can sustain human beings amongst others: “What’s crucially important to wilderness thought is that humans occupy no particularly privileged or unilaterally determining position within being.

"Human points of view are but one point of view among others" (Levi Bryant). But how do we live this rather than just think it?

How does art becomes fact?

How can art "make a difference"? By not going along with "that's just the way it is". Yes, but to really be valuable there's got to be more to this than just bohemian lifestyle. Here's a way of thinking about it.

[Art] is concerned with the historical alternatives which haunt the established society as alternative tendencies and forces...

Blake not bleak

Blake's "Doors of Perception" was an important starting point for Now Future...
Hikurangi The Royal Society of New Zealand Victoria University