During the zoosemiotics conference in Tartu this week David Rothenberg suggested that we make a happening/event at The Explorers Club in New York in June, when I'll be in town because of the Gatherings in Biosemiotics. We're talking about Monday June 20th - and my sketch for a theme sounds like this:
"2111"
As we have embarked upon our half-millennial path to a truly sustainable society, debate still lingers as to whether or not a new civilization has begun, or is but in preparation. Arne Næss, for one, looked forward to the 22nd century, by which time the three great challenges of the 21st century (the ecological crisis, poverty, and overcoming war) would have been solved. How did it all play out? How did we reveal, resist and defeat the self-fulfilling prognoses of growth-trapped society?
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