# J. Czabanowski, The Meaning of balanced Co-Existence Nature and Culture: Green and Human Philosophies towards ‘Futourism 21’

(c) Juri Czabanowski/ UrchiTecton, The Meaning of balanced Co-Existence Nature and Culture: Green and Human Philosophies towards ‘Futourism 21’

Interpretation by contextual explanation 

To explain coined ‘Futourism 21’ by author of the unfolding manifestation of co-existential art- and lifestyle of integral sustainable society some images are presented and described by philosophical references and reflections.

Philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, phenomenologist and existentialist was concerned about the Other, and his impossibility being the other. In his ‘horizontalism’ Infinity reveals itself in the face of the Other. God disappeared, left us behind to face with the Other.[i] Revelation will appear in confrontation by conscious reflection.

What does ‘horizon’ mean in the coined ‘Futourism 21’? What is the Other or could be the Other? Victor Hugo wrote; ”The nature that places the mask of the visible over the invisible, is only an appearance corrected by transparency”. An attempt to explain the meaning of nature to discover and uncover multiplied layers and to be discovered and uncovered by the transparent appearance of the co-existential Other.

On the other side the development to think and act on multi-levelled degrees, a movement in height or ‘verticalism’, a phenomenon since specie homo sapiens developed to walk straight up on two legs      

Futourism is an equalizing attempt to balance perspectives of wideness of horizontalism and highness of verticalism, multi-focused observations by different set of lenses on screens, focused screenings by hi-tech tablets.  multiplied multiplayers to register a multi-complex reflex in an all-round helicopter view. Contemporary parents are situated as multitasked (re)presented beings as helicopter-parent, imaginary and practical fulfil different tasks in space and time, becoming an in-between transition-observer of 3 D-space and linear chronological (‘chronos’) and neuro-emotional (‘kairos’) in time. Time as linear ongoing followed sequences as frequencies without difference proportional measurements in units, ‘second’, and recycling reflections of observations. Synchronous and synthetic symbiosis of a continuous and continued continuum as overviewed supervision overview (review-view-preview). An overlap and overleap imagination (of natural images and artificial virtuality) and reality, the fusion of theory and praxis (ideas as prototypes), often observed as confusion or wondering, an interaction of parallel realities in a multi-layered grid or matrix of endless references, multi-duplications of reflections, endless unfolding replicas. A transformation of original, identity, into copy and recombinant copy, clone as original duplicate being an unique example (in genetics: sheep Dolly, bull Herman) like cell-process of reproducing itself.

 

Ill. Casper David Friedrich, The Wanderer above the Mists, painting 1817-’18, Hamburger Kunsthalle

How to get and explain a supervision, an ‘overview-effect’ like in extreme astronaut-perspective described from the Apollo-Mission space-shuttles looking down to glorify our common living habitat on Earth? What effect does global observation of a globetrotter as wandering soul undergo co-existing with an animated and vital phenomenon, personified as Mother Earth or Gaia, useful and imaginable as ‘bionaut’?

A comparable imagination and fascination of such penetrated experience has been painted by Casper David Friedrich[ii], famous painter of the Early Romanticism: The Wanderer in the Mists/ Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer, 1818.

 

Superlative-relative

The wanderer, viewed on his backside, makes it easier for spectator to identify with the confronted wanderer, concerning in contemplative scenes like observing the phenomenal scenes of being surrounded by Nature, an experience of pure natural co-existence. Is the figure as alter-ego of Friedrich and substituting stand-in in praised dialogue (silent prayer) with the glorious landscape, glorifying mountains, trees, clouds as related participants, inspired anima and vice versa animated inspiration for the painter? Like in the vision of Francesco di Assisi, praising the creation and its creatures. Friedrich’s observing wanderer looks clarified above the troubled mists; standing on an overview-level, a peak-point contemplating space and time (painter’s age is 43 years). These natural phenomena purified and clarified himself, overwhelmed by experienced observation.

Do these natural figures as mediators between Earth and Heaven replace the (catholic, earlier Christian) Saints of a Sacre Conservazione, holy figures often adored as intermediating protagonists? Like long before the so called pagans and animalism-believers, being conceived that all is animated by soul connected to Great Spirit.

The Wanderer contemplates in co-existence with his natural environment. He is losing and re-finding himself at once, as part of the creative process and created everything, indirect in the painting and painted result. The wanderer is mentally enlightened after physical exertion to reach the top, and probably in an euphoric state of mind, a higher consciousness and exploring ecstasy of open mind and senses. Does he spot a glimpse of eternity in front of him, symbolized by the vague silhouette of a huge mountain, representing even a greater challenge and admiration? A mixture of ecstasy and relativity of one’s own ego, recognizing to be a little part of the whole, an observed experience being able to undergo on the top, sharing a splendid view as existing perspective and possible still non-existing of unknown as discovering challenge. It will be one top of the many tops around to peak in the Universe in a lifetime. Poet Lucebert quoted: “De mens…besef… een broodkruimel te zijn op de rok van het universum… laat ons daarom wanhopig aan de ruimte morrelen”; “The human being…conscious… a bread crumb on the skirt of the universe…so let us fumble on the space with despair” [Lucebert 1952].[iii]

The wandering soul

Historian of art Hugh Honour described in Romanticism Friedrich’s figure and figuration of the composed frame as:?..and the distant, almost visionary, horizon tantalizingly out of reach, creating an uneasy mood of yearning for the unattainable indication, glimpse of immensity lying on the other side beyond our vision“ [Honour 1979].[iv]

The wanderer is standing on the top of his life, his status on this overwhelming spot is one of pure reflection, to observe the magic and magnificent landscape, even if it is a misty delineated panorama. The mist makes it mysterious, an unfocused view as veil, the confronted Other as counterpart, kept in a sharp observation and sharp-lined silhouette of the Wanderer, the spectator. The absence of a personal face as identification, increase the exchange between object and subject, interlinks observer-wanderer at first impression, standing on his identifying spot, and interlinks observer-painter at 2nd phase later as analyser of a transfiguration of his view as if and becoming part of imagination. An included paradox like life itself, within it mysteries which will be partly dis- and uncovered, or will rest in mist(ery). The tops (targets) are clear, reaching out above the mist(ery) below (distance to be covered), as the identical overlap of wanderer and observer himself in determined standing as a fixed rock in frontal pose;

Euphoric soul

A person who has climbed upwards to reach this position, symbolizing an identical higher social class position, properly enjoying his ‘status sine qua non’ and ‘non plus ultra’, being obviously the only one on this top. The identification with hero, becoming part of heroism, ecstatic euphoria.  Is it a statement of the painter to illustrate his top of his carrier in 1818, being a renowned and talented painter and respected citizen? He represents the human being as wanderer of a personal odyssey, who has peaked a stage, uncertain if it will be the highest, personal top in life. This central figure, literally and figural in this frame, looks into the future, (con)frontal perspective: some tops in front will never (more) be reached or peaked, like the endless horizon and heavenly uprising mountains; they are still a challenge in front, in future, in another atmosphere and even other life beyond this supreme moment of topping. Some tops lay behind, literally behind the wanderer’s back, they are passed, belong to the past.

Verticalism as perspective

He stands on a tipping or turning point (‘Wendepunkt’), a frozen moment ‘here and now’ forever, like the height of the nearly infinitive mountains. He co-exists in between spheres, wondering and wandering, one step to reach the clear heavenly sky above the mist (part of title of painting), another step before the fall into the abyss: an act of balance between height and depth, control above phobia of fear. He appears above the disappeared depth, as sign of conquer depth in life. He looks frontal, obviously self-ensured into the future, the coming challenge…an even higher top in front to be climbed. His ‘contraposto’-attitude is even more stabilized with his wander-stick, a classical position which confirms conditions of stability. In his case dynamic stability being a sportive wanderer and mountain-climber.

A point of nearly integral consciousness has been reached: under-, un-, sleep-, high-, upper- and super-consciousness at once, a sublime and supreme moment(um) at once (fr.: ‘moment supreme’), being the centre of this universe, be(com)ing one with and focused upon the universal cosmos as universe of a cocktail of mysterious mists and clear starry nights. A supervision of the overview effect as spatial perspective of a holistic Unity represented in all its facets of diversity. The World as Creation of Ring der Nibelungen as G?tterd?mmerung [Wagner 1874][v] and life-circle of misty vibrations of ups and downs  as curriculum vitae: der Lebensablauf der Nebelschwingungen und Ueberwindung der H?henangst und des Tiefenschwindelns als ungleichsamen Weg zwischen H?henflug und Trübetal/ the way of life of mist-vibrations  and victory above acrophobia and bathophobia as unequal path between sky-high and valley-depth [Czabanowski 2018].

The Wanderer Above the Mists became an icon of early Romanticism in Germany and later worldwide, the personification of ‘Sehnsucht’, the human odyssey of commuted waves between ‘Fernweh’ registered as ‘Dort wo Du nicht bist, dort ist das Glück’ or ‘Horizon-negative’ (Virilio, 1984) and ‘Heimweh’ (homesickness), the drift to discover the Unknown and the desire to return in place of birth (germ.: Heimat) and even before, in the prenatal phase, the covered Hidden (back into mother’s womb as warm shelter). Lifetime as trivial act between ‘Himmelhoch jauchzend und zum Tode betrübt’. The highest top Mount Everest peaks 8848 m and the Mariana Trough sinks 11000 m in depth. Futourism accepts the ‘horizon-existence’ as limit(ation) with vertical vibrations [Czabanowski 2018].[vi]

The Green Human Perspective as Superlative

? Ill: photo Holger Wolpensinger,National Park: Nordschwarzwald , near Freudenstadt, Baden-Wurttenberg, G 2018

This photo shows National Park Nordschwarzwald/ Northern Black Forest. The Romans called giant unsettled, forest areal ‘silva nigra’: black forest. An unclear space were people were afraid being exposed to natural dangers. Cutting of forest started in 9th Century by higher human densities created a more balanced density between nature and culture of monks and knights. The name "Svarzwald" is first registered in chronicle monastery of St. Gallen of year 868, a precise translation from Roman.[vii]

A period of steady cultivation of deforesting followed. Pine-trees grew faster, a less divers forest developed, becoming real dark because of compacted dark needle-trees.

Industrialization transformed landscapes planting pine-trees for industry, brought out of balance existing natural ecosystem, on long term unstable condition, losing biodiversity and sustainable situation. The earth is a planetary laboratory for evolutional creation as developing process-in-progress by unfolding [Czabanowski 2018]. Great parts of Europe were more and more deforested by increased civilised growth and population with greater demands and needs.  

Later restored the interaction between people and planet, being part of natural phenomena, was reintroduced: “Das Wandern ist des Mullers Lust/ Wandering is lust of walking Browns”. Schwarzwald, Black Forest exists as cultural landscape of pines and firs.

National Park Nordschwarzwald is adopted project of the Green Party, ‘die Grünen’ in Baden-Württemberg (G). In begin the Schwarzwald-population had doubts, in meanwhile it is replaced by great acceptance for pure natural places of regeneration and income by growing (eco-)tourism: balanced health and wealth by wellness-efforts for wanderers.

Positive effect of becoming a wanderer again is personal healthier condition and motivation can change the negative position against migrants and refugees (germ. Auswanderer and Flüchtling), fellow-people who become participants unwilling long-term ‘tourists’. They are walking out (‘wandern aus’) of their familiar environment in an uncertain future, get lost of their roots, putting on their boots, seldom for pleasure and luxury.     

 

Reforesting biodiversity

These needle trees have been transformed in mix forests, like Black Forest (Schwarzwald) has been restyled in the original state [Wolpensinger 2018].[viii]

This 2nd image is a contemporary photo of wooden panorama-bridge, illustrates a green perspective, a view without human or animal presence; the shadow reflects a vegetative-reflected mirror. A (dia)positive impression and Worldview of the Anthropocene: the healed and recovered World as co-existential Worldview. An expression of ‘Sehnsucht’ as hang or ecstasy to the ‘Desirable’, deep desired penetration of wishful sensitive thinking-feeling of electrified nerves (germ.: Sehnen). Often compared and for its divine admiration for Nature known as Romanticism. Nature with its strong power made creation itself strong enough to maintain without a creator; creation itself became divine, creators became gods and took divine status. The Image of God himself was not needed anymore: “Gott ist tot” replaced by sciences and technology [Nietzsche].[ix] Nietzsche’s superior protagonist Zarathustra used parables of animals to illustrate wonder of creation. Even more 13th century living Francesco d’ Assisi admired co-existence with universal creation illustrates the essential meaning of togetherness of Nature as creation on earth as miracle. Enlightened philosopher Baruch Spinoza declared the divineness and energetic power of Nature and Universe as almighty, equal to God. The Image of Nature and its natural power of creation became superior as ‘divine dimension and proportion’.

 It explains the duality between the Hi-tech Modernism and machine-fascination and admiration Super- or Post-Futurism in an Age of Mega Transition and constructions on one hand and retro-sessions and backwards views of a retro- and neo-Romanticism with vintage-return (back-age as retro-baggage), return into the known and safe existence on the other hand (Czabanowski, 2017). The opposition isn’t that ultra-extreme anymore, there is a tendency of fluid exchange, a fluid society [Bauman 2015][x] and development. An exchange between reproduction and contra-production, ‘panta rhei’ and ‘conserva sine qua non’, progression and conservatism worldwide. We are living in a ‘in between’ world of matrices, of mega-transitions and –transformations and mega-constructions created by 3D-Machines and algorithms pretty soon. A transitional period like a mixture of ongoing Middle Ages and renewable Renaissance, the Rebirth of the Birth, be(com)ing the contemplation and reflection at once, a retro-result of re-incarnation. It looks we are witnesses of a ‘continued continuum’ as Zeitgeist, a link between past-presence-future, be(com)ing superconscious. A phase of mankind philologist Nietzsche coined as ‘Ueberbewusstsein’ or higher- or super-consciousness, a way to find truth and meaning by experience, not believing [Nietzsche 1888].[xi]

 

Green Principle of Hope

It explains the paradox within the box of paradox of schizophrenic paradigms as phenomenon. The attempt of searching a way out with staying in the box, a fear to leave the safe conditions of the belly, known as ‘separation anxiety’. The singular growing between the growing to an end-growth and growing to a new generation (foetus: unborn covered born and uncovered born).    

The illustrated bridge above and jump into the Green. People and animals are gone. Green and green ‘derivatives’ the Panorama-View. The view from the bridge upon the endless appearing woods work as green healing future until the horizon. It disguises green hope and future. “Die Hoffnung stirbt zu letzt” (Hope will die as last). Referring Ernst Bloch’s Das Prinzip Hoffnung (Principle of Hope)[xii] in our contemporary situation and state of art we are confronted to stimulate green and hope where- and whenever.

? Ill: photo Holger Wolpensinger, National Park: Nordschwarzwald, near Freudenstadt, Baden Württenberg (G), addition photo/text Juri Czabanowski 2018

Coined as geographical ‘Anthroposcene’ as Space and geological Anthropocene as Time, the reality should re-enforce the Green Principle of Hope. Someone’s sense of love and empathy for Wood-Forest-Nature is illustrated in the photo of the Green Perspective...as balanced Supervision, counterpart of an anti-stoned/petrified space (contra-hardness), dematerialisation of space-time-tabled worldview as pure Meaning of Life: a conditional need like breathing, in best case clean fresh air. Wealth is not equal with Health: a biodynamic balance of wealthy and healthy conditions for holistic human well-being is part of an universal co-existential well-being worldwide.

Philosopher Paul Virilio warns for a ‘culture of desertification’ as result of a perverted society in his book The horizon-negative; he argues:”It is not any longer sufficient to speak in negative terms of ‘zero growth’, we have to enforce ourselves positive to reinvent the perception of the world.”[xiii] Virilio mentions the existence of more than only the central or scientific perspective of the renaissance:”…an essential continuity between the vast and the fluid, the gas and the mineral, between the absence and presence, he (who is afraid) has torpedoed the relativity of the moment of the observation.”[xiv]

On aerial photo-images of Hambacher Wald-case (near Aachen, Germany) people and animals disappeared as well, are fallen out of the dimensional frame: human-machines reproduce product-objects as mobiles and energy power stations, standing lonesome, rather surrealistic like paintings of Giorgio di Chirico’s 'Pittura Metaphysica'; they illustrate a threatening gloomy experience, as if life of co-existence has been disappeared; only spooky shadows refer to human existence as if real presence is hidden in a cocooned shelter.

Turning Point to System of Ecology

A report of scientists and policy-makers Die ?kologische Wende, Industrie und Okologie – Feinde für immer? analysed a symbiotic and co-existential way of industry and ecology by introduced industrial(ized) recycle-system for optimal (re)use. Gunter Kunz proclaims re-cycling thinking in complex, multi-layered networking systems of ecological links [Kunz 1983].[xv] Frederic Vester argues a new cybernetic way of thinking, following the well-functioned holistic systems of biosphere, warning for the unknown effects of concentrated artificial mono-systems without included hidden and negative feedbacks [Kunz 1983].[xvi] Pioneers, in building sector as well, attended to rethink existing behaviour and production-systems, being aware of a murdering force by ecological and energetic crisis in the 1970s, enforced by critical followers and increased emancipation [Czabanowski 2006][xvii]. Scientific models fed by mathematic dates, figures, statistics concluded the limits of fossilized storages as basics to move industrialized engines worldwide in several decades”: The Limits of Growth [Meadows e.a. 1972].[xviii] The first critical decade of re-question and rethink economical wealth and their conditions was a fact, but the networked power monopolies of multinationals showed their stubborn-ness as hardliners and poker-players with dismissal of workers at national headquarters as trump. The question if industry and ecology will be enemies forever has been partly answered in tactic of slow reformation to respect long-term ecological transition of mainly short-time exponential profit dominated economy of growth.    

 

Green devotion and Green Cross

Once again, let’ s have a look into the deep green and take a deep breath of wellness to be ensure there are still such panoramic beauties and beautiful panoramas; they stimulate de-stress: here it look-a-likes human pressure of permanent transition has been stopped: a like-look for green growth. Several images of art (Boezem- Green Cathedral; Czabanowski - Cathedral of Wood; Jones- Thorn Chapel) will be explained in article 'Arts towards Futourism 21'.

Aerial photos of the ‘Hambacher Wald’, a disappearing forest as 'Leitbild' take over the function of an ‘Andachtsbild’ (eng.: image of devotion) in Middle Ages: empathy with deep suffering like Jesus’ crucifixion. Engaged motivation summoned by ‘Leidensbilder’ (eng.: images of suffering) present on social media. Green suffering and sacrifice works represent in observed helplessness as sense, being caught by destructing hi-tech power (mega-diggers). The ongoing deforestation recall a deep need to stop this kind of destruction by machines programed on schemes of an exponential progress based on speed. Deforestation devoted as green crucifixion; next to environmentalism techno-digitalism as well becomes an ideology with religious tendencies, ICT-evangelists and -disciples and green gurus, actual high-priests included. Cooperative and multidisciplinary bridges between both are urgent: green bio-technologist and techno-environmentalists.

Images of people ( (c) Photo: Green Peace, demo '#hambi bleibt' on 6 October 2018) on other hand illustrate and create an awareness and understanding of caring support and fragility; not only original tribes of Amazonas are threatened with survival because of disappearing rainforests and primeval forests, becoming without helping life-support, people of high-industrialized regions are as well confronted with cutting of their immediate environment, a sacrificed condition of a progressed phase of natural growth. The biggest part of the primeval forest has been sacrificed here already in a long struggle of ‘cultivated’ progress. Now the last rests and part will be sacrificed and finally this operation will be pictured as a sacral sacrifice, a ‘grand finale’ of the crucifixion of a forest, the total deforestation, an ecocide as example of helpless nature-sacrifice for a so-called progression. Progression ...the question is and should be ‘Where to’ or What will be the direction or vision as dynamic move(ment)? Vision is not question of Where as existing existence, but conditional move(ment) to become a place or spot, in this case a human-ecologically minded and conscious utopia (‘u-topia’ or non-place). The utopian supervision with help of a mega-transition realise a resilient sustainable lifestyle of co-existential habitats of eco-cities with green human sanadomes and –homes, coined as ‘Futourism 21’.  A result of brave behaviour quoted as ‘human-environmentality’ is an attempt, a possibility to transform the structural networks of Industrial Age into a 2nd Green Age of post-industrial (like post-oil) with knowhow of natural sciences and with help of technical sciences, like bio-technology by ethics called ‘genethics’ or ethical genetics [Czabanowski 1996].[xix] Please read https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/czabanowskiurchitecton-2018-organic-architecture-21-age-czabanowski

(S)election of genes

Our ancestors selected best/greatest seeds for instance, a condition to guarantee a better harvest as certainty to survive. Philosopher Herbert Spencer’s ‘Survival of the Fittest’ [Spencer 1864][xx] is result of reading Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution [Darwin 1859][xxi], meaning the best social fit, most adaptable will be the best guarantee to succeed, survive by an attitude and condition of adaptation. Evolution biologist Richard Dawkins’s book Selfish Gene follows the Darwinian selection of genes and memes [Dawkins 1976][xxii]. A manipulated selection since 1st agricultural revolution selecting best and greatest seeds for breed-cultivation as Darwinian social-ecological process as mentioned in the evolution as process by progress by selection.   

In industrialized times the confrontation between natural and artificial reproduction escalated. Technical industry with machines prospered limitless mechanical (re)production as artificial progress together as questioned in research. Technology has to be tempered as helping tool-source, not as self-fulfilling goal or ICT as new divine ideology in order of religion with so-called ict-evangelists who spread their mission of digital virtual as biblical prophecy of a new world order ruled by Big Brother Clan and Companies, a registered global way of life of their followers as so-called friends, booking their faces to feed algorithms with big data to influence their patterns of consumption by influencers of screening industry. Followers should become conscious fellowers, adults who take moral responsibility by ethical behaviour of inner beauty and not only aesthetical criteria of external beauty. Bertold Brecht’s “Erst kommt das Fressen, dann die Moral” [Brecht 1928][xxiii] should be questioned in its holistic view to “Gewissen-im-Biss und -im-Griff: Mit Essen f?ngt man die Moral oder die Ethik des Essens als globalen Eingriff im Biss des Gewissens” [Czabanowski 2018].  TV-Doc of Human-production moderated by prof. Louise Fresco Eten is weten, is geweten (Food is knowledge, is conscience) underlines the moral expectations and ethical aspects of food production and consumption next to the senses of taste.[xxiv]

(c) ill: Czabanowski/UrchiTecton, Fair Trade Food- Human-Eco Philosophy for One World and Globe, garden Nijmegen 2018

Food becomes a balanced behaviour of good manners and taste, being aware of the holistic process of interdisciplinary sciences to feed conscience as well by feedback and -forward. Philosopher Feuerbach  “Der Mensch ist was man isst”, “A human is what he eats [xxv], can be in general reversed into “Man isst was man ist”;“ You eat what you are” in context of moral, cultural and economic question.

Deforestation versus regeneration

The images of the Hambacher Forest illustrate an insane, civilized growth on costs of vital and natural growth; a technical planed growth without respect and attention for regenerative cycles, a '24-7-365'-Society without intermezzi, based on (repro) production and consumption?  The giant browncoal-digger (photo: down-right) digs off the layers of coal, entering the existing rest of forest Hambacher Wald, leaving a raped landscape and molested, desolate biotopes.

These forest-rest could anyway restore on own energy force of regeneration within half a century, the graved excavation becoming containing lakes and create so biotopes; question is Where does human mankind plan and realizing (sub)urban spaces of high density, and where will be space left for nature (force)? Next to his opus magnus Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen the historic scientist Johan Huizinga introduced the social importance of the playing individual, the gamer as 'homo ludens' [Huizinga 1938][xxvi] According to this social perspective and referring to ‘ecotect’ Louis le Roy [Le Roy 1973][xxvii] to human influence as participant reduced, the phenomenon of the ecological importance of the playing and acting nature as protagonist with minimalized interference of people, coined as 'natura ludens' (Czabanowski 2018); it would be a kind of revival of deep ecology [Naess 1973].[xxviii] Le Roy list of basic principles in Natuur uitschakelen summarizes: 1. Human being is a product of nature and culture; 2. Monoculture ever should be avoid in any case (view of illness), its condition creates a challenge for nature and will be contested with strength; 6. The city functions as an oasis (contrast); 10. Insecticides has to be reduced to minimum, only if there exist a strictly need – use of amateurs should be forbidden.[xxix]

The author underlines the balanced active role to support the force of nature, behaving as co-existant and co-assistant, a balancing cultivator and co-creator in cases if man has destroyed existing nature by his force, like abandoned scars in wrapped landscapes: ‘scar-shapes’. Projects of environmentalist John Dennis Liu illustrates the regeneration of destructed landscapes with help of people as collective team, an ‘anthroposcene’ like the successful Loss-project of regenerated vitalism against desertification by replanted biodiversity in China, shown in Green Gold-doc [Liu 2012].

Green counterpart of empowered digital virtual world

The author has chosen his Header on by a view on Nature-perspective of cornflower field and mountains at horizon; because of increased pressure of humans to create his environment his own hands in mind and praxis. Balance between ‘Nature-Mankind-Technique’ recalls a 'co-existential Humanism': to observe the re-call and echo of existential reality: what will replace 200 years focus based on industrial processes worldwide in different phases? Big Data-Service Accounts and Societies? Will companies who collect and serve data rule the world? A shocking doc-report ‘Faking America great again’ broadcasted by zdf-arte 2018 showed the effects of eventually misuse of big data, being the present oil for the engine of service for society: created in analogue and virtual way, computer-programs like institute Cambridge Analytica influenced voters with positive social drives and negative political motives of manipulation, voting-result of Brexit and US-president election, both in 2016. Psychometrical research has been projected to manipulate voter’s choice, especially anxious and uncertain ones.             

Many employees worldwide are already knock-down or replaced by automatic machines, computers or robots now or in next future; to big counting by techno-logistic programed lifestyle lead to a computed countdown, devaluation of human resource with ‘useless’ class by artificial intelligence (AI) [Harari 2016][xxx], creating workplaces for control to stabilize an established system ; an artificial system under control ruled by algorithms to order statistics for raking analyses and orders a bureaucratic system without bureaucrats but programed computers and robots: a self-supporting ‘technotope’ by artificial intelligence doesn’t need human intervention, in extreme case it will eliminate human mankind as useless: the artificial creation will replace the natural creation if human race don’t balance proper its responsibility being a creation of nature and culture, Le Roy’s 1st fundamental criterion. Homo sapiens, homo deus, homo exodus and other kinds of aspects to classify the diverse status of the human race will certainly explain the ‘status aparte’ in the evolution of life. Still the human ability to cooperate-coordinate with help of artefacts to learn to manage life supporting system, creates a stage of a potential homo co-existensis, the ‘Athroposcene’ of an even more extra-potential specie with capacity to stimulate the status co-existential tolerance, increasing its horizon. Human imagination could play a more fortunate part in art & life-integration as techno- and biodynamic ‘sustainstability’ as art-& lifestyle to undergo nature and culture and democracy of creativity for All (Joseph Beuys); it will help us to balance daily technical challenges, to learn from technology as creative play station and nature as re-creative resource to use all our senses and to integrate and fit designing in our perception and (re)presentation [Czabanowski 2018].  

Based on the archaic milestone as cosmological spot Stonehenge near Salisbury (UK) Carhenge (US) by architect-artist Jim Reinders illustrates a post-industrial piece of art, a memorial monument for the car-culture along the Highway 87 in 1987 (photos on PPP-slide) ; a symbolized sign as farewell for a frozen car-mobility as morbidity. A more efficient and environmental way of mobility will start. Worldwide car-yards are historic spots to experience of declined old-timers becoming habitats, (de)composted by nature during a long-term recycle. Should our vision of monumental reconstruction be one of Scarhenge, a respect for patina as acceptance of beautiful aging and scars, evidence of events and co-existence of natural law and cultural evolution?

Some urban parks in Barcelona include remains old industrial building as cultural heritage, becoming co-habitats for urban flora and fauna; co-existential spots develop an eco-city move(ment) to allow all kinds of happening happen. Resilient sustainable cities are re-green cities with incorporated and integrated life-cycles: urbanized eco-systems and ecological and -cyclic urban system, green human megacities included (photo literature with thanks to prof.dr. Michael Prytula, chairholder Urban Future, FH Potsdam G).

Compost-Modernism as expression of ecological deconstruction by Green Deconstructivism, already incorporated in philosophy of Jacques Derrida’s Post-Structuralism and Deconstructivism as post-industrial follies of architect-designer Bernard Tschumi: relict of industrial design without machines and function for reproduction, volumes without industrial content in post-modern spirit, ‘laissez-faire’-objects to embellish parks like Parc La Vilette 1982-‘90.      

To return to Spinoza: the more conscious we are of ourselves and Nature/Universe, the more perfect and blessed we are (in reality) according to Spinoza as pantheist and rational philosopher of natural sciences published in his post-hum masterwork Ethica (Ethics).[xxxi] His thoughts invites to take the boots for walking, like the wanderer to be confronted with the beauty and glory of nature as inspirational source for life-support. Walking, jogging, mounting, biking, activities as daily therapy to relieve, relax and re-enforce one’s horizon: our horizon is an earthly equilibrium with cleaned spheres and balanced atmosphere (Photo: Czabanowski on the road, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany 2018).

Coming down on the platform of planet Mother Earth as human potential scene, ‘Anthroposcene’, being engaged to take care of her relatively fragile skin, to regulate better protection for our planet and our life-support systems, against dangerous profit-makers without respect for long-term growth and right for recreation to chill, relax and reflect. ‘Dolce far niente’, ‘dolce vita’ and ‘carpe diem’ are still Italian recipes and remedies to recover and restore balanced condition of good health and wealth and slow (down, food) motion by we-, re- bicycle: twice double row trees/double avenue along provincial street NL (photo: Czabanowski/UrchiTecton, Futourism on highway for bikes-likes, Summer 2018)

 

End-Notes

[i] Philosopher Emmanuel Levinas (1905-1995).

[ii] Casper David Friedrich (Greifenwald (Pommern) 1774-1840 ); most important ‘German’ (Pommern), northern painter of Romanticism.

[iii] Lucebert citation of 2 verse-lines of poem Ik tracht op poetische wijze, 1952.

[iv] [Honour 1979]; Hugh Honour, Romantisicm, Style and Civilization, London 1979, p. 78.

[v] Richard Wagner (Leipzig 1813-1883 Venice), composer of late Romanticism (Sp?t-Romantik), being protected by king Ludwig II of Bavaria.

[vi] ‘Horizontalism’ is the way of relativity beyond the human desire to challenge limits, attempts to reach and jump above the horizon, like to discover the unknown, create utopia, create and reach the impossible as mission, the ‘heroic’ focus to make ‘mission impossible’ possible by challenging the personal limits and neglecting the limitations.

[vii] Ard, Planet Wissen, Schwarzwald 22 March 2018.

[viii] Info of engineering-researcher Holger Wolpensinger by e-mail on 8th Octobre 2018.

[ix] Philosopher-Philologist Friedrich Nietzsche (Rocken 1844- 1900 Weimar).

[x] [Bauman 1999]; Zygmunt Bauman, The Fluid Modernity, 1999.

[xi] Friedrich Nietzsche’s higher consciousness of human mankind leaded by Zaratrustra as superconscious mind.

[xii] Philosopher Ernst Bloch, Das Prinzip Hoffnung, 1938-1947.

[xiii] Philosopher Paul Virilio (1932-2018), Het horizon-negatief, Essay over dromoscopie, Amsterdam 1989, 28.

[xiv] Opus cit. Virilio, p. 29.

[xv] [Kunz 1983]; Günter Kunz, Die ?kologische Wende, München 1983; p. 17, 21.

[xvi] [Kunz 1983]; op.cit. p. 159,

[xvii] [Czabanowski 2006]; J. Czabanowski, Humaan-Ecologische Georienteerde Woningbouw, TU/e 2006; p. 200.

[xviii] [Meadows 1972]; Dennis, Donetalla Meadows, The Limits of Growth, New York 1972.

[xix] Contribution ‘Barriers for Technology: Genet(h)ics’ in Ecological Design: 14th International Svedala Symposium of Czabanowski on IAED-Symposium in Svedala, Sweden May 1998.

[xx] Herbert Spencer coined phrase ‘Survival of the Fittest’ in 1864.

[xxi] [Darwin 1859]; Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, 1859.

[xxii] [Dawkins 1976]; Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 1976.

[xxiii] [Brecht 1928]; Bertold Brecht, Die Dreigroschenoper, opera 1928.

[xxiv] Louise Fresco, FRESCO’S Paradise: Eten is weten is geweten, HUMAN-docu serial 2013-14.

[xxv] Philosopher Friedrich Feuerbach (1804-1872) phrase of 1862.

[xxvi] [Huizinga 1938]; Johan Huizinga, Homo ludens, essai sur le function social du jeu, 1938.

[xxvii] [Le Roy 1973]; Louis le Roy, Natuur uitschakelen, natuur inschakelen, Deventer 1973.

[xxviii] Philosopher/mountaineer Arne Naess, founder of ideology and phrase ‘deep ecology’ 1973.

[xxix] Opus cit. Le Roy: Fundamentals/ Basic Principles.

[xxx] Yuval Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, 2016.

[xxxi] Baruch Spinoza, Ethica, published in Opera posthuma by friends in 1678.

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