September 29, 2006
This what happens to nature from the exploitation of natural resources through mining.
A highly coloured contaminated river that flows through the town:
Gary Sauer-Thompson, Queenstown River, 2006
a highly coloured contaminated rock faces:
Gary Sauer-Thompson , Rockface Queenstown, 2006
It is a bare landscape with neer a touch of green growth. The place is Queenstown, Tasmania.
It 's history kinda makes sense of Heidegger's analysis of the completion or closure of metaphysics and his thinking of the age of technology in terms of the Gestell. The show the way that aesthetic experience and rationality can oppose, instrumental rationality and the technological mode of being.
Can aesthetics and meditative thought preserve a resource against technicist nihilism embodied in mining that destroys the earth?
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