bridgetmck@NatureMC @pvonhellermannn @gdjp Martin Shaw is associated for me with Dark Mountain, that I was involved with from its start in 2009 or so. They asked these Qs about new mythologies, to dismantle discourses of progress, separation, & what I call #everydayecocide And built from Christian patriarchy, the idea that God ordains human reproduction & pastoral agriculture ad infinitum. How weather is conceived as part of this, is a really interesting question.
@NatureMC @pvonhellermannn @gdjp Myths tend to reify, to lay down as truth how things originated or should always be. Do we need myths for this new disrupted context, where weather patterns & species are not as they have been? Or some new forms of storytelling?
Pauline von HellermannHmm, interesting question. I think we do need myths, or at least an openness to mythical thinking - but as you say, reification and the anti-science that mythical thinking can involve are not good. But I think what we do need is a language/arts that recognise how momentous these times really are, and that we are part of these times and can all (each in different ways) be #Heroes (maybe not a helpful concept either but i kind of like it)
@pvonhellermannn @NatureMC @gdjp Totally agree. Just as we need all the different actions, solutions & people, we also need all the forms & functions of the arts, traditional knowledge & rituals, and design, that we can muster. But essentially, with a turn to healing Earth systems. Undirected creativity isn’t so helpful.
Yes! Speaking of which, have any of you seen this play? Does all this so brilliantly, I thought. By a Belgian theatre company
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Attached: 1 image #ClimateDiary went to see #AreWeNotDrawnOnwardToNewEra, a brilliant play about environmental destruction and healing at the South Bank Centre this evening. All about the moment we are at - how we got here, and how we can undo it all (I don’t want to give too much away, but it uses a a really clever, though-provoking, fun device for this - clue in title) #Theatre #Drama #ClimateTheatre #ClimateArts #climateAction #ClimateEmergency https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/performance-dance/are-we-not-drawn-onward-new-era