Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15291/sic/1.16.lc.2
Lokalno, globalno, planetarno: ekokritička analiza prostora u novim umjetničkim praksama
Marijeta Bradić
Abstract
The focus of the paper is on ecocritical discourses about space in the context of the climate crisis, with regard to the different levels at which the crisis manifests, and their articulations in the visual arts. Namely, while early ecological theories, including ecocriticism, were based on humans’ connection with local ecosystems, urbanization and globalization have played a role in distancing the human from the local ecosystem in which she is embedded. Such changes also caused the separation of human from the complex chain of production and consumption of economic goods and its effect on the environment. As a result of the mentioned problem, many theorists recognized the need to reconnect the human and the environment, which would result in a better understanding of environmental processes. However, new circumstances such as the development of new technologies (e.g., GPS, Google Earth, etc.) and the ever-present climate changes required overcoming the sphere of the local and the shift towards the global. More recent theoretical interests are moving away from spaces conceived within human scales towards planetary entanglements and eco-cosmopolitan visions. The aforementioned set of problems is known as the ‘problem of scale,’ which simultaneously affects the categories of time and space. Consequently, the paper will present the basic aesthetic challenges posed by the climate crisis, primarily the ways in which visual arts that implement new media and technology try to integrate the heterogeneous dimensions of the local and the global into a unique narrative.
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Publication date:
21.12.2025.
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