The paper questions how to act in a way that breaks with the established.
How to break the status quo, which, as Giorgio Agamben points out, is in fact
completely unstable? We live in a time that is (seemingly) constantly changing
with a multiplicity of choices, while the generalisation of the exception
has become commonplace, because we live in a world of emergency. We
live in a world where the temporariness of emergency has become the
rule. Or, as Peter Klepec insightfully describes our time, we live in a time of
“permanent ultimatums, in societies of emergency”, in a society of “superemergencies”.
This state of affairs manifests itself in “development”, the
effects of which are the gradual denaturalisation of the world. Along with the
process of denaturalisation, our relationship to nature is changing in a directly
proportionate way. Despite the many alternatives that exist, it seems that we
are no longer able to even think, let alone act, in a way that would allow us to
break out of the cycle of our domination of nature. But this is what we need
to do. To overcome this extremely burdensome situation, it will be necessary
to break with the current seemingly immutable automatic processes and
procedures. We need actions that will break the current pattern of prediction.
We need an answer to the question of how, in this continuity of a state of emergency subordinated to capital, we can even begin to think and create the possibility of action, without forgetting everything artificial around us. All
of the above is essential for the design profession, because if change does
not come from the profession itself, those who survive the tsunami of the
absurd state of emergency in the production of things that we are living in
today will be forced to change design.
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