How to grow a Heinz bottle
A nice video made by the Mill. See it here
Looks like Debbie Mollenhagens How to grow an Orangina bottle.
What is Next Nature?
With our attempts to cultivate nature, humankind causes the rising of a next nature, which is wild and unpredictable as ever. Wild systems, genetic surprises, autonomous machinery and splendidly beautiful black flowers. Nature changes along with us.
Discussion
Wooow.. good find Rolf! When was this made? This is just like the how to grow an orangina bottle project.. but eh.. the story is slightly less intellectual.
A friend of mine, that was on one of the earlier NN shows, found it and recognized the relationship between them. It’s kind of one dimensional, but really slick!
I guess it was only a matter of time.
Great ideas are always coppied
But then the question remains who coppied who or better still what coppied what ? Did nature copy us or did we copy ourselves? If the latter is true what happens when our origins become man-made?
In the name of the mother and father will someone tell me what’s going on!!
We still associate Nature with origin, but we only get to appreciate Nature when it is lost. Our Nature experience is a Retro experience.
> what happens when our origins become man-made?
Then we are forced to change our image of nature.
We are calling for another way to look at nature. The way to do draw the border between nature and culture is changing. In the past, Nature was the realm of the ‘born’ (origin) and culture was the realm of the ‘made’. But through human science these categories became blurry. The new way to distinguish culture from nature is to draw a line between ‘controllable’ and ‘autonomous’.
I understand this but….
What becomes our reference?
The future?
How can the future be our reference?
Unless we are going backwards?
I still get stuck here..
Maybe Jos de Mul is correct with his notion of ‘post history’ he wrote about in the next nature pocket?
The way I see it, there’s absolutely no need for a reference in the scientific-point-of-view other than what nature and culture meant to the human race in the past. If you want a discussion about ethics, then it could mean something…
-however- You can’t stop progress (an/or decrease). Now that we have entered the land of Oz, following that yellow brick road is the only logical thing to do.
Mixing former-nature and former-culture through technology will eventually end up in great future-BLOBs: expanding lifeforms, capable of surviving anything, able to reach undefined boundaries. It’s only a question of time.
Being human is only a temporary state-of-mind