Human Alienation and Computational Ecopoetics Essay

Computational Ecopoetics project is centred on human alienation from nature as an underlying contemporary cultural framework and uses the capacity of the poetic bringing-forth to restore us to the earth and land as our home. Restoring us to the earth is the project of ecopoetics as phenomenological rather than political frame that constitutes the most direct return to the place of dwelling. The question is in what respects a poetic computation may be a making (poiesis) of the dwelling place (eco- Greek oikos, the home or place of dwelling). Heidegger’s notion of technology as a mode of revealing, â€Å"enframing,† enables the possibility for the truth to be revealed through technology, poetically. The understanding of technology as a mode of†¦show more content†¦The technological fix to environmental problems leads to sustainability that frames earth as a recyclable, renewable, and, ultimately, replaceable resource. Fixing the problem in the sense of conserving, regenerating, and nourishing the resource base of capitalism. It is no longer an issue of how to convince people to accept and promote sustainability, but of whether we can and how to overcome the alienation and reification from nature that had emerged with capitalism, industrialization, and urbanization? It is critical to consider whether we can ever approach Nature in an non-ideological way or are all attempts to capture Nature, theoretically, poetically or narratively, nothing more than our own appropriation of it? technà © (art/artif ice) is opposed to physis (nature), most fundamentally in terms of causality. The opposition between physis and technà © has generated the traditional divisions we have in Western philosophy among nature and culture. In Heidegger’s text, Being and Time, the concept of being in-the-world places primary emphasis on equipment rather than physiology. The understanding of world as a network of interdependent relations at a variety of levels, conceptualized in human terms, limits our ability to comprehend natural earthliness. â€Å"All that we will ever be able to say, or think or experience of supposedly natural phenomena is necessarily situated within the world.†(Heidegger) Heidegger retains a sense of