La matèria en decadència de l'Antropocè. Explorant paisatges residuals a través de processos de ruinació

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Olli Pyyhtinen
Stylianos Zavos
Alma Onali
Ulla-Maija Sutinen
Niina Uusitalo

En aquest article portem la noció de ruïna més enllà de l’enfonsament de les estructures construïdes i la utilitzem per explorar els paisatges d’escombraries contemporanis. Amb els residus produïts per la humanitat en augment fins a cobrir tot el planeta, examinem la vida amb i en les ruïnes de l’Antropocè, on no hi ha una Llunyania a la qual es puguin expulsar les deixalles i, per tant, apartar-les dels humans. D’una banda, examinem els residus com a matèria en estat ruïnós, subjecta a un procés de ruïnació i resultat d’aquest; els residus són la petjada d’una presència anterior que roman i continua aguaitant-nos. D’altra banda, sostenim que el malbaratament col·lectiu està convertint el propi entorn natural en ruïnes i els paisatges, en paisatges d’escombraries. Cap al final de l’article, també destaquem les qualitats pertorbadores de la ruïnació i la decadència, i analitzem les sensibilitats renovades que evoquen els residus. Una vida amb residus en un món de ruïna antropocènica equival a una vida que no és totalment propietària de si mateixa, sinó que està inextricablement embullada amb l’alteritat.

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Antropocè, descomposició, ruïna, paisatge d’escombraries, residus, Deixallocè

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Pyyhtinen, Olli et al. “La matèria en decadència de l’Antropocè. Explorant paisatges residuals a través de processos de ruinació”. Digithum, no. 30, pp. 1-11, doi:10.7238/d.v0i30.416569.
Biografies de l'autor/a

Olli Pyyhtinen, Tampere University

Catedràtic de Sociologia i fundador del Relational Studies Hub (RS Hub) en la Universitat de Tampere, Finlàndia. La seva recerca creua la teoria social, el treball de camp amb inclinació filosòfica, la sociologia econòmica i l’estudi de l’art, i és autor, per exemple, de More- than-Human Sociology (Palgrave, 2015), The Simmelian Legacy (Palgrave, 2018), The Gift and its Paradoxes (Routledge, 2014), i Simmel and ‘the Social’ (Palgrave, 2010). Actualment, Pyhtinen dirigeix dos projectes sobre residus i economia circular, WasteMatters (ERC Consolidator Grant, 2022-2027) i DECAY (Acadèmia de Finlàndia 2022-2026), i un projecte sobre pràctiques contemporànies del regal (Kone Foundation, 2021-2024).

Stylianos Zavos, Tampere University

Becari de recerca postdoctoral de la Universitat de Tampere, on treballa per al projecte WasteMatters. Anteriorment, va ser investigador associat en la Universitat de Manchester. Ha coeditat el volum Urban Infrastructuring: Reconfigurations, Transformations and Sustainability in the Global South (2022). Zavos té formació en estudis arquitectònics i urbans. La seva recerca és transdisciplinària: se situa àmpliament dins de les ciències socials, i empra mètodes etnogràfics, però també es nodreix de corrents filosòfics contemporanis i de la tecnociència feminista.

Alma Onali, Tampere University

Investigadora doctoral en la Universitat de Tampere, on treballa per al projecte WasteMatters. Li interessen les relacions sociomaterials entre éssers humans i plàstics i com s’estan renegociant aquestes relacions en l’actualitat. Abans de dedicar-se a l’àmbit acadèmic, Onali va treballar com a periodista especialitzada en assumptes mediambientals i econòmics. Es basa en estudis de cultura material, teories posthumanistes i sociologia més-que-humana.

Ulla-Maija Sutinen, Tampere University

Becària de recerca postdoctoral en la Universitat de Tampere. Treballa com a membre de l’equip del projecte WasteMatters i, en el seu treball actual, se centra especialment en el seguiment dels fluxos de residus de les llars relacionades amb les pràctiques quotidianes. Sutinen té formació en màrqueting (social) i recerca del consumidor, i els seus interessos de recerca giren entorn de les pràctiques quotidianes, el consum sostenible i els residus. Se centra en metodologies qualitatives i interpretatives.

Niina Uusitalo

Becària de recerca postdoctoral en la Universitat de Tampere, on actualment treballa en el projecte DECAY – Disrupted Waste Flows in a Broken World. Uusitalo té formació en estudis de mitjans i comunicació. En el seu projecte postdoctoral Envisioning climate change (2019–2023) va estudiar l’estètica de les imatges del canvi climàtic. Els seus interessos teòrics se centren en l’ecofilosofia, el nou materialisme i els estudis visuals.

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