organic / inorganic (2)
Processes of decay, invasion, the organic and the artificial seems interlacing and it’s leading us through a new definition on coinhabitation in ecological system as a whole.
Robert Smithson explains entropy with an imaginary process of a little boy starting to run clockwise in a sandbox filled with white and black sand on each side separately. ‘He is then told to run counterclockwise. This will certainly do nothing to undo the movement toward uniformity. As his legs continue to churn, the process of entropy will, irreversibly, only progress and deepen.’ as stated in Formless A User’s Guide by Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss.
For me this explains an inevitable evolution towards dependency thus inseparability of the naturally occurring and the human-made. Decay processes of materials also has significance when finding clear differentiations in between the natural and the artificial. Should a bacteria feeding off of plastic actually be called organic as a microorganism evolving out of a completely inorganic matter?
In addition, photosynthetic bio-garments are currently in use, as fabrics which ‘mimic the complex architecture, spatial organization, and time-evolving nature of living cells.
According to Synthetic Ecology of Microbes published in Journal of Molecular Biology: Engineering novel microbial communities may involve inducing the coexistence of unusual combinations of wild-type organisms, or constructing ecosystems of genetically modified species, thus creating a continuum of possible strategies between synthetic biology and ecology.
The harmful aspects are immediately noticeable and certainly to be taken into consideration while human activities are altering ecosystems at an alarming rate. However human kind could not be separated nor diversified from nature. I would like to approach the above mentioned subjects with an impartial point of view, as monitoring rather than deciding.
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