Growing the city into forest
[ b 1,1 ] The vision for Phloem Phloem grew out of post-global warming images and ecological themes in Japanese anime and manga. Representations of climate changed overgrown ruined green cities cross-fertilized with my studies of petroleum culture, ecological philosophy, climate policy rhetoric, and indigenous ecologies and legal orders. Since 2017, I have been teaching …
[ B 1,1] [ ⋇ ] Ecopolis isn’t a brand, it’s a theoretical position Ecopolis appears to be just another word for ecocity, but it harbours some profound, albeit subtle, differences. Simply put, the concept of ecopolis (that I favour and have promoted publicly since 1989) is broadly shared by Russian, Chinese, Italian, and other …
[ B 2,1 ] [ ⋇ ] It’s a question of tactics. Civil society does not respond at all well to moralistic scolding. There are small minority groups here and there who are perfectly aware that it is immoral to harm the lives of coming generations by massive consumption now: deep Greens, Amish, people practicing …
{San} Even if it recovers, this place is no longer the forest of the Shishigami.{San} The Shishigami is dead.{Ashitaka} The Shishigami will never die.{Ashitaka} He is both life and death itself.{Ashitaka} He told me to survive.{San} Ashitaka, I love you, but I cannot forgive humans.{Ashitaka} That’s fine. You live in the forest, I will live …