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• Title:
  The Pink Arche. The First Principle of the Posthuman Reality in the Anthropocene and SUPERFLEX’s "Pink Elements" as a Possible Representation of it
• Creator:
  Innocenti, Marco
• Description:
  This article will argue the suitability of the Pink Elements (2019) by SUPERFLEX for representing the elementary particles of our posthuman reality, intended from a cultural perspective. Firstly, it will address the ‚bit’, deemed by some as the current arche, revealing its limits in the light of the Niche Construction Theory applied to humans. Then, I will try to demonstrate that the relational dimension corresponds to reality as we perceive it after postmodernity. Therefore, I will analyse the dynamics of the human-environment relationship in the geological era called ‚Anthropocene’ by comparing Merleau-Ponty’s perception and Morton’s hyperobjects. Finally, I will give some examples of recent artworks reflecting this relationship, synthesisable as a ‚recording of a non-deciphered text’, among which the Pink Elements will stand out as bricks capable of representing the ultimate substance of reality as the posthuman culture shows it to us.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2022 Marco Innocenti;
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/deed.pl
• Date:
  2023.08.01
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  English;
  eng
• Source:
  Studia Germanica Posnaniensia; Nr 42 (2022); 179-192;
  2720-7013;
  0137-2467
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sgp/article/view/38996/33164
• Subject:
  arche;
  posthumanism;
  Anthropocene;
  hyperobjects;
  environment
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sgp/article/view/38996
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  other