After scanning through Koert van Mensvoort’s Real Nature is not Green, I was a little confused. Maybe I should read it more carefully, but his point seemed relatively straightforward.
Culture is that which we control. Nature is all those things that have an autonomous quality and fall outside the scope of human power. In this new classification, greenhouse tomatoes belong to the cultural category, whereas computer viruses and the traffic-jams on our roads can be considered as natural phenomena.
I wonder what Koert thinks of the whole global warming thing. I thought that our culture influences nature. What falls outside the scope of human power? I am sure if nature is within the domain of human power, then it ain’t autonomous. Maybe the asteroids and comets fall outside of human power…
Is the grass real?
The above photograph depict’s Melbourne’s Federation Square’s Urban Garden. You can do drumming workshops on Wednesday afternoons. I don’t think the grass is real.