FLORA LYSEN: Expansion and Immersion: Metaphors of the Mind and the World

WHERE ARE WE GOING, WALT WHITMAN? An ecosophical roadmap for artists and other futurists Conference -- festival that took place from 12--15 March, 2013 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Gabriëlle Schleijpen, head of Studium Generale Rietveld Academie invited Anselm Franke, Binna Choi, Carolyn Christof - Bakargiev, Natasha Ginwala and Vivian Ziherl to each inaugurate a discursive and performative program of one day. Tuesday March 12: BLUE MARBLE The image of planet earth has become an icon of possibly the last utopias of the 20th century: of living in ecological harmony with nature, and of the creation of a borderless world. It transmits visions of one-ness, of wholeness, of a united world, and it popularized both ecological and systems thinking and appeared to support the idea of a post-nation state, globalized and networked society. What does the image of planet earth “want“, what operations does it perform on various ideological and affec