Stephanie Bailey & Gean Moreno in Conversation
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Join us Wednesday, July 17 at 12 pm ET for a Contributor Conversation on Instagram Live. Stephanie Bailey and Gean Moreno will discuss their respective contributions and the overlap of ideas surrounding our latest theme: Reworlding.
If you haven’t already, check out Stephanie’s feature, How To Make an Old World New?
Notes on the Whales in the Room and Gean’s Imagination Dead Imagine on ARTPAPERS.org!
Guest edited by Michael Jones McKean, Reworlding is Art Papers’ first exclusively online issue. Considering that long before a shared scientific understanding of Earth existed, humans acknowledged an emergent concept of World: a conceptual threshold that encompassed life’s full spectrum of spatial, material, and spiritual possibilities. In only a few generations, humans have unlocked a set of capacities that have set in motion vertigo-inducing changes that have, in turn, radically altered our cosmovisions—our imaginary of Earth, and how to live on it. The root of these shifts is not a single event, but many intersecting moments that broadly encompass the scientific, religio-spiritual, technologic, ethical, political, geologic, ecologic, economic, and cultural. Together, these moments have precipitated a planetary turn; a new conception Earth as a geophysical assemblage, one that can be studied, measured, gridded, quickly traversed, sensed, and subjected to extraction. The planetary, for better and worse, has become our de facto vision of World