Conference: State of Nature in India 2018
Keynote lectures, August 23-25, 2018
Taking place in Mumbai, India, the State of Nature in India conference aimed to better understand the complexities faced by the region in addressing the current ecological crisis, and offer a critique of the widely discussed Anthropocene concept. It sought to dissolve boundaries between multiple practices by creating open and cross disciplinary conversation, cutting across traditional disciplinary categories of knowledge making and bringing together artists, cultural practitioners, natural and social scientists, policy people, activists and thinkers.
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- contributionBernd M. Scherer
The Naturalization of Humans in the Anthropocene
Bernd Scherer discusses how technology shapes human society, calling attention to how algorithmic software modifies our view of the world.
Agency, Knowledge transformation, Disciplinarity
- contributionAkeel Bilgrami
State of Nature: Some Philosophical Issues
How can the debate on the environmental crisis be re-politicized? Akeel Bilgrami argues in favor of anti-capitalist, radically cooperative perspectives.
Capitalism, Human-environment relations, Epistemology
- contributionAkeel Bilgrami, Bernd M. Scherer
Closing Discussion with Akeel Bilgrami and Bernd Scherer
In this closing discussion, Akeel Bilgrami and Bernd Scherer debate their mutual arguments and, together with the audience, weigh in on the presented lectures.
Disciplinarity, Agency, Complexity, Anthropos
- contributionRavi Agarwal
State of Nature in India: An Essay
Artist, environmentalist and curator Ravi Agarwal provides a background and introduction to the State of Nature India in 2018.
Conversation, Reflection, Human-environment relations, Naturecultures
