Ecologia come testo, testo come ecologia
Timothy Morton
In the essay “Ecology as Text, Text as Ecology,” Timothy Morton relates two seemingly disparate approaches: radical ecology and text deconstruction. Indeed, for Morton, ecology is a text constantly written and rewritten by the actions and interactions among organisms. On the other hand, text - and with it any other work - is not an isolated entity, but is always embedded in a larger living system: everything, for Morton, becomes text, and the relations between subjects and environment take on jagged, fractal-like contours. This reflection, also in the light of MAEID's valuable rereading, sheds new light on the meaning and impact of our actions on the environment, opens the way for new practices of co-existence and co-dependence between biological and artificial entities, and makes the boundary between material and information dimensions even more permeable.