UTOPIA IN THE ANTHROPOCENE ################## ARTWORKS BY
MARGRETHE KOLSTAD BREKKE
MARGRETHE KOLSTAD BREKKE
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always leading. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realization of Utopias.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
We are living in a historic moment. A massive paradigm shift in mainstream status quo is emerging.
Somewhere between the surprising fall in Solar PV production costs in 2014... ( ``Some analyst peg the tipping point as 2014, when renewable energy began what is now increasingly seen as the inevitable triumph of wind and sun. In April 2015, Michael Liebreich and Bloomberg New Energy announced, `Fossil fuel just lost the race with renewables...The World is now adding more capacity for renewable power each year than coal, natural gas, and oil combined. `` 2017 Club of Rome ``Come on!`` s118 ) ...and Greta Thunberg - lies a cultural tipping point, a potential new normality,
which renders modernity as we know it absurd.
With the Anthropocene as backdrop, the only way into the great unknown is through Utopian strategies, as explained by Ruth Levitas. To imagine something on the horizon, and then to do your best to get there, with no guarantee of success what so ever.
I believe the arts will be useful in this process.
So, this is what I`m working on.