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What is the cultural dimension of sustainability? This book offers a thought-provoking answer, with a theoretical synthesis on »cultures of sustainability«. Describing how modernity degenerated into a culture of unsustainability, to which the arts are contributing, Sacha Kagan engages us in a fundamental rethinking of our ways of knowing and seeing the world. We must learn not to be afraid of complexity, and to re-awaken a sensibility to patterns that connect. With an overview of ecological art over the past 40 years, and a discussion of art and social change, the book assesses the potential role of art in a much needed transformation process. Rezension Reviewed in: www.turbulence.org, 8 (2011) Oxford Art Journal, 35/1 (2012) International Journal of Cultural Policy, 1-3 (2012), George Kaye Oya, 9 (2011), Lara Mallien Kulturelle Bildung, 9 (2012) The Goose, 11 (2012), Anne Milne Stradda, 25 (2012), Martina Marti International Sociology, 27/9 (2012), Diane Barthel-Bouchier Laboratorium, 5/2 (2013) Reihe Image - Band 25. Cover Art and Sustainability -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Sustainable Development and Sustainability -- The 'cultural dimension' of sustainability -- Overview of the following chapters -- Methodological considerations -- 1. The Culture and Art of Unsustainability -- Introduction -- Section 1: The culture of unsustainability -- Section 2: The art of unsustainability -- Conclusion -- 2. Toward Culture(s) of Sustainability, Step One: Systems Thinking and the Limits of Holism -- Introduction -- Section 1: Some basics of Systems Thinking -- Section 2: The Systems View of Life -- Section 3: The Systems View of Society -- Section 4: Ervin Laszlo's "Systems View of the World" and the limits of Holism -- Section 5: Cybernetic apparatuses and the risk of a technological drift -- 3. Toward Culture(s) of Sustainability, Step Two: From the 'Big Picture' to the Culture of Complexity -- Introduction -- Section 1: Complexity: Edgar Morin's 'method' -- Section 2: Transdisciplinarity -- Conclusion to chapters 2 and 3 -- 4. Aesthetics of Sustainability -- Introduction -- Section 1: From Aesthetics, environmental aesthetics and ecological aesthetics to aesthetics of sustainability -- Section 2: From Bateson's sensibility to the pattern which connects, to a sensibility to patterns that connect -- Section 3: The sensibility to complexity -- Section 4: The transdisciplinary sensibility -- Section 5: The phenomenological and animistic sensibility to a more-than-human world -- Conclusion -- 5. Ecological Art -- Introduction -- Section 1: Land art, environmental art, ecological art -- Section 2: Precursors and pioneers -- Section 3: Exemplary directions in environmental/ecological art -- Section 4: The "Reenchantment of Art" according to Suzi Gablik -- Section 5: The Monongahela Conference on Post-Industrial Community Development.
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