![]() The photographer Pablo Ernesto Piovano has depicted the deformations produced by herbicides and pesticides in the production of transgenic soy in Argentine rural space. The slow violence of environmental degradation, as Rob Nixon defined it in Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (2011), is invisible and almost intangible, but it is able to permeate, little by little, the materiality of living organisms. ![]() Apocalypse, from the Greek apokálypsis, means revelation. This is a repository of images without clear points of reference that we will upload to the archives of memory in order to recall how the world was prior to all anthropogenic intervention. ![]() From contaminated rivers to oceans whose corals have turned white, streets and cities underwater, brutal hurricanes that flood and sweep away cars, lamp posts, buildings, people. ![]() ![]() In a sense, the idea of the crisis has been displaced by the idea of the end: the end of species, deforestation, hyperbolic fires that sometimes exceed the most far-fetched fantasies of fiction and film, vanishing glaciers, a planet that is reduced just as it is filled with refuse and trash. Since I started working on the aesthetics that portray the ecological crisis, I have noticed a scatological discourse settling into the global imagination, in narratives that go from popular media to literature to film and art. ![]()
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