Przyroda(i)kultura w epoce antropocenu
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2012
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM w Poznaniu
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Nature(and)culture in the anthropocene epoch
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The article deals with a New Understanding of nature and culture, which is being crystallized in
the intellectual current defined by the name of post-humanities. The starting point for the analysis
of work of art from the area of bioart – transgenic plant named Edunia, which is a part of a larger
project Natural History of the Enigma. Edunia, which does not occur in nature but was created by
the artist Eduardo Kac by means of specialists in the field of genetic engineering. A new form of
life defined as plantimal shows a DNA expression of the artist included into decorative flowers of
petunia. Rose petals of flowers are “interspersed” by dark red vessels the feature of which is the
expression of Kac’s gene; this because the artist took care of that that his DNA was found just in
the venation of the flower. In the article I present two interpretation paths of this work of bioart
which, however, are not a sharp counterpoint to one another, but somewhat differently place
accents between nature and culture in their mutual entanglements. One of these paths may be
defined as an attempt at making others realise or reminding them about our evolutional species
condition, while the other one as an attempt at treating nature as an important actor of the sociopolitical
activities.
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Przestrzenie Teorii, nr 17, 2012, str. 105-114
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978-83-232-2449-5
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1644-6763