Forests as an expression of the common Fragments for a micro-politics of nature
- Pierre-Antoine Chardel, Emeline Gougeon
- Date: 2020
- Published in: L’Utopie Revue Littéraire et engagée 1, pp. 60-66
- A kind of schizophrenia is prevailing today, in our so-called « hypermodern » era. While we are making progress in certain areas of ecological awareness, still we continue to move in the opposite direction. We are increasingly dependent on certain types of progress that shape our lives: technologies, screens, urban environments or the artificialization of land. At the same time, we know that our evolution must change its course to stimulate other collective imaginations, to build resilience with our natural environments. Many studies show that the brain is very positively impacted by nature, revealing more than ever our « becoming animal », in reference to the formula of Gilles Deleuze who designated by this a faculty of wrapping ourselves in a sensibility other than our own, allowing it to affect us, letting ourselves be affected by it. But what are our capacities to change collectively to forge new links (or rediscover old ones) with nature, and more specifically with forests more specifically?
- Language: English
- Image: Forest of Fontainebleau, France © Pierre-Antoine Chardel, 2020
