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| João Mariano © Lugares Pouco Comuns (2000) |
«There are
thoughts we can anticipate, glimpsed in the distance along existing thought
pathways.
There is a
future that is simply the present, streched out further.
There is not-yet
thought that arrives - yet here we are thinking it in the paradoxical flicker
of this very sentence.
If we want
thought different from the present - if we want to change the present - then
thought must be aware of this kind of future.
It is not a
future into we can progress.
This future is
unthinkable. Yet here we are, thinking it.
Coexisting, we
are thinking future coexistence. Predicting it and more: keeping the
unpredictable one open.
Yet such future,
the open future, has become taboo.
Because it is
real, yet beyond concept.
Because it is
weird.
(...)
To be a thing at
all - a rock, a lizard, a human - is to be in a twist.
How thought longs
to twist and turn like a serpent poetry!
(...)
The needle
skipped the groove of the present.
Into this dark
forest you have already turned.
I take present
to mean for the last twelve years. A butterfly kiss of the geological time.«
~ MORTON, Thimothy.
2016. Dark Ecology: for a logic of future coexistence. New York:
Columbia University Press.
That is,
romanticism is to blame for everything?
Romanticism made
the world knowable and the reader invulnerable to its influence. Nature, on the
one hand, has a certain "magic", as the romantic writers write, but,
on the other hand, it is strictly regulated and subject to the laws of logic.
This thesis reflects Timothy Morton's literary background: dark ecology
does not grow out of the philosophy of nature, but out of his studies of the
literature of British romanticism. However, it is not so important whether
romanticism really influenced the formation of the modern picture of the world
so significantly. The important thing is that it has become generally accepted.
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O importante é a mudança de paradigma(s) que se está a instalar paulatinamente, nas sociedades ditas “Ocidentais”, desde o Renascimento, e que sofreu um significativo incremento com o pré-romantismo e o romantismo, digamos “naturalistas”. Uma lenta, mas inexorável, transição, que se traduz em novas formas de conceber e sentir o mundo: o (micro e o macro) cosmos. Uma espécie de utopia impregnada pelo forte vivenciar das inter-relações entre todos os seres, humanos e não-humanos, bióticos e abióticos, consubstanciada por uma eco-lógica e, simultaneamente, por uma eco-sensitividade holísticas. Um mundo ecocêntrico, pleno de seres sencientes.
Importante é que esse mundo novo, que já se vislumbra, irá muito
para além do romantismo (e escusado será dizer de iluminismos, positivismos ou
outros estreitos “ismos”). O novo mundo será integrativo e inclusivo…
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