Applied Cultural Theory

THE COSMOPOLITICAL GARDEN
Institute for Postnatural Studies

The history of botany, gardens, and greenhouses has always established hierarchies between plant species and genres. From a political standpoint, these taxonomies manifest the human capacity to colonize and exploit the wealth of others, ranking certain species as more productive, more beautiful or more exotic than others, and importing them from all corners of the world. The Plantiatocene invites us to explore the relations between such control and power devices and the ideas of progress and time they entail: for colonial time is the time of simplification forthe extraction of value, of distribution in a hierarchical fashion, coupled with mass genocides of both people and other creatures. Geopolitics can help us understand the hidden complexity behind the movements of bodies and seeds which are always linked to economic and aesthetic interests, while also revealing the power relations between different states and territories.

Applied Cultural Theory
Univ.Lektor M.Arch. Gabriel Ruiz-Larrea Fernandez Alonso, MA

1st session: Monday, 15 January 2024, 14:00-16:00
2nd session: Tuesday, 16 January 2024, 11:00-13:00

Location: Seminarraum AC0440

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