From the Forest to the Garden:
Praise for a Temporal and Technical Ecology
Full paper at:From the forest to the Garden.
ARQ 108
Without having to submit to a mythologizednature, we must recognize the urgency ofa new natural contract, a subject already introducedby the French philosopher Michel Serres in 1990.For example, since the Industrial Revolution wehave resorted to resources from the lithosphere.Extracted from the Earth’s solid surface layer, fuelssuch as coal, gas, or oil are products of ecosystemsthat disappeared hundreds of millions of years ago.By adapting nature to our requirements and skippingthe time cycles that correspond to us, we haveforgotten our dependence on it. This accelerated rateof consumption of non-renewable resources has ledus to a hypertrophy of the present. The amnesia whenidentifying our origins prevents us from collectivelyprojecting ourselves towards a future beyond a fewyears (Delannoy, 2015).However, today, in the midst of the COVID-19pandemic, just like the sociologist Bruno Latour (2021)points out in his text “Where am I?”, humanity has beenforced to reconsider its representation of the globe.Confinement has awakened the consciousness of homo sapiens as to its relationship of interdependence withliving beings.