EARTHRISE

There is no question that ecological ideas acquired a central role in contemporary episteme. In contrast, the heuristic function tha t these ideas can assume in the current polarisation is questionable: that which, over the last decade, has identified the environme ntal crisis with the (categorical and totalitarian) concept of the Anthropocene. Ecological discourse positioned itself inside histo rically situated trajectories that contributed to the transformation of aesthetical paradigms and political practices.