Deep Ecology Summary - Pimmy

For centuries, man has seen the world around him as something that should be controlled. A person is defined by the power he exerts over the society he lives in and by how much wealth he can accumulate. But, with an ever growing population and the world moving towards becoming a single community, rather than separating states, this model needs to be re-examined. Human existence needs to be viewed as working as part of a finely balanced system, rather than a fight to control it.

Most people view the world as an individual living within an individual society. Our actions are judged in, not fully define their impact on the world around us, and ‘success’ is failure to accept that all life is interrelated and interdependent. These traditional views are no longer sustainable.

Since the time of Newton, Science has been seen as a way of understanding, ordering and remoulding our world. We celebrate the sciences to suit our demands. Sciences are seen as logical and ‘right’. In current state, they may lead to the downfall of all species that populate this Earth.

Deep ecology seeks to work in harmony with the world around us and create a system that is sustainable in a world which is becoming more singular. It involves the coming together of various social, economic and psychological aspects. It requires a shift in how we view our own lives, our aspirations and the way that the world as a whole is perceived. 

For life on this planet to be sustained, we need to reject many of our current values and see each individual working as part of a caring system where selflessness is the only way to secure the existence and well-being of the individual. We need to create a world where destruction and domination need to be replaced by care and conservation.

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bridges

Some references to begin with:

- the Rope Bridge by Gordon Matta-Clark  (even if you cannot find this particular project, it is more than crucial  and delightful to discover his work!)

- Scarpa's bridges in Venice

- Gustave Eiffel bridges (Porto for a realized example)

- the bridge of no-return between north and south Corea

- the Bridge Problem / 7 Bridges of Konigsberg, resolved by Euler

- Loophole by R&Sie

- Moses...

- diverse projects to connect Great Britain to the Continent (before Eurostar)

- the rotating bridges of Chicago (and other)

- Sergio Musmeci's fantastic structural work (also Pier Luigi Nervi)

- Chenonceau Bridge-Castle

- Millennium Bridge in front of the Tate Modern in London

- Tacoma Narrows bridge (and other mechanical resonance phenomena stories)

- Lowentor Pedestrian bridge

- etc.

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Deep Ecology Summary - DREAM

In this current time, most people are buying the wrong, outdated idea of the world. They have failed to realise that major problems the world is facing are systemic problems, interconnected and interdependent , and are fragments of one intergrated crisis in which cannot be understood on its own. This will not be solve until a paradigm shift into an ‘ecological paradigm’ has occurs and people undergoes an utter change in thier perception, thinking and value.

Ecological Awareness is an acknowledgement of the earth-centred values rather than just a human-centred values. This can be break down into ‘shalow’ ecology which excludes humans from the narural environment and ‘deep’ ecology which recognises value of all living beings and views everything as one unified whole.

Additionally, social ecology and ecofeminism is also an important philosophical schools of ecology that addresses important aspects of the ecological paradigm. Social ecology is the acknowledgement of cultural characteristics and that patterns of social and economics structures along with their technologies are rooted in the ‘dominator system’ of social organisation, whereas ecofeminism views the men domination over woman as a prototype of all domination and is deliquently adopted in various hierarchical forms.

Thus, the shift of paradigms requires not only our changes in thinking but also values in a healthy and dynamically balanced way, it is less self-beneficial and therefore founded difficult by most people. Hence why its viewed most urgent to introduce an ‘ecoethical ethics’, a new systems of ethics related to the understanding of deep ecology that every lifes are connected, to the world especially to the science field. Unless the understanding of ecoethical ethics and a deep ecology paradigm shift has occurs, humans perception of the world can becomes life-threatening to all living beings on this planet in the end.

Deep Ecology Summary - Jun

Understanding the reality of a new world is what the author wants to imply to our modern society. Understanding the new world is to be able to accept the theory of seeing the world in a whole cannot which cannot be separated. People have studied about problems in this world and start to realize that they cannot look at the world as in isolated parts. The world we are living in is all connected. However, their politic leaders do not care about problems and fear to receive any fundamental changes from the new world because not only their thinking that has to be changed, but also their values. If changes were able to do so, we might be able to achieve a ‘sustainable’ world. So, a new paradigm or paradigm shift has been brought up to urge people to change their way of thinking and be able to accept any radical changes. The new paradigm can be seen as in two views, holistic view and ecological view. Holistic view sees the function as a whole and acknowledges all parts of the function. And for ecological view, author also introduces two more ways, deep ecology as a way to look at the world wholly and see humans as part of nature, and shallow ecology as humans being a center of all living beings. If people start to realize the importance of deep ecology, they would probably accept the radical changes and the equality of humans and nature.

Deep Ecology Summary - Pae

In this new century, there are several global problems, interconnected to each other, such as an overpopulated in world population, poverty, or extinction of animals and plants species. Those problems may be considered as a whole different causes and resolutions, but in fact, caused by mainly a problem which we called, a crisis of perception. Approximately fifty years, physicists and philosophers have been debated about this change in paradigm where, according to Thomas Kuhn, changes in paradigm occur in discontinuous and revolutionary breaks which so-called paradigm shifts

Not only in physics field where paradigm shifts occurred in twenty-five years ago, whereas they can be found in a much larger arena throughout the world; which is now to be concerned as a cultural transformations rather than physics itself. What is happening now is that the revolution of paradigm, for instance the view of human body as a machine or the achievement in technology growth, has shaped up our society for over decades and as well as influenced the rest of the world.

The new paradigm, generally, can be called either holistic or ecological worldview. However, ecological seems to be more applicable to the term since ecological sees things within how it functioned, as same as holistic, and addition to the effect on communities and environment. In deep ecology, according to Arne Naess, the Norwegian philosophers, it prioritizes human as same as other existence. Another characteristic is to question more, which considered as another kind of paradigm shifts as well. Within ecology schools, social ecology and ecofeminism schools seem to be interesting as well since social ecology does much more on cultural characteristic and patterns while ecofeminism concerns more on the context of patriarchy.

Moreover, even though expanding our perception is very important, however, having values is another necessarily aspect as well. In the past patriarchy in society plays a major role that gives power, self-assertive, and prioritizes men as an upper class of women. However, according to new paradigm, it shifts social organization to networks.

When comes to daily life, deep ecological ethics is needed especially in sciences which what scientists do today is not life-preserving but life-destroying. Yesterday we might have separated facts from our values, whereas today’s society has corresponded perception and behavior as a psychological connection.

Deep Eco's summarize

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Deep Ecology's Summarize

What the writer wrote and stated in this book is about deep ecology, the new paradigm. The writer was trying to convey that nowadays environmental concerns have become a very important topic. He stated that we are now facing the whole global problems that are harming the world itself and all the lives on it, and that it may soon become unalterable. The writer did suggest that some of the solution might be very simple, but yet no one, even the higher up see how different problems are interrelated, and yet, they refused to understand. The writer’s main interest has been about how concept changes over time, and so he suggest about Kuhn’s idea which the writer later called it “Paradigm Shifts”. This paradigm sees the world as an integrated whole rather than a dissociated collection of parts with the terms “holistic” and “ecological” where holistic is less appropriate then one other. Ecological can be separate into twos, one is shallow and the other is deep; where deep ecological awareness seems to provide the ideal philosophical and spiritual basis for an ecological lifestyle and for environmental activism. The writer mention that we need a power to expand not only our perception and thought, but also our values in order to creates a shift of paradigms. Simply putting things together from the writer’s opinion; we need to start thinking mainly not for our self but to the surrounding that we were surrounded by to create a shift in our mind where problems can be solve.


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Pimmy's Project Zero, remake

Nowadays people whom living in city consume some products that they desire rather than necessity. From our closest thing, food. I'm using the illustrated work of Andy Council having red devil's hands as fast food side, easily demanding attention from people. At the same time these people, trying to grab the fast food, are stepping on the painting of Giuseppe Arcimboldo. The painting called 'Vertumnus', the god of seasons and abundance, representing healthy side. The green living tress turning into red dead trees below are representing your life, your body how is it going to be if you were at the side you've chosen. And all of these is happening on the city we're living, full of neon signs and advertisements everywhere, and almost every time.


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