%0 Journal Article
%T Eerie Systems and Saudade for a Lost Nature
%A Paul Goodfellow
%J Arts | An Open Access Journal from MDPI
%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.3390/arts8040124
%X This paper considers Art¡¯s engagement with the socio-ecological systems in operation in the world. Drawing from both environmental and art history, this paper employs the Deleuzean concept of the fold to suggest three overlapping periods of ecological-systems awareness over the past sixty years. This paper demonstrates how we have shifted our attention from a material engagement with the Earth to a primary engagement with systems which describe and simulate the Earth. This shift in attention to secondary information and an enfoldment within systems, defined as the Post-Systems Condition, manifests in the aesthetic quality of the eerie and a profound sense of saudade or longing for a lost nature. View Full-Tex
%U https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/8/4/124