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categories on nature (more to follow)

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Categories on Nature_Cover

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Categories on Nature_Chapter 2

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Categories on Nature_Chapter 2_page 62

rachela abbate C3_Cover categories on nature (more to follow)

Categories on Nature_Chapter 3

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Categories on Nature_Chapter 3_page 98

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Categories on Nature_illustration_8

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Categories on Nature_Chapter 3_page 138

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Categories on Nature_Chapter 4

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Categories on Nature_Chapter 4_page 202

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Categories on Nature_Chapter 5

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Categories on Nature_Chapter 6

rachela abbate COVER_Back categories on nature (more to follow)

Categories on Nature_ Back

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categories on nature in the Mirabilium Archiva exhibition

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categories on nature in the Mirabilium Archiva exhibition

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categories on nature in the Mirabilium Archiva exhibition

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categories on nature in the Mirabilium Archiva exhibition

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categories on nature in the Mirabilium Archiva exhibition

 

 

This work is part of the Commutecture project.

Categories on Nature (more to follow) reflects on different philosophical and anthropological approaches in conceptualizing nature and human in nature. In Western traditional concepts, the thinker and her position in nature have to be defined, making out perceptions and imaginations.

Categories on Nature (more to follow) is based on the idea of a book as an important tool in western thinking and archiving. Therefore, the book model is composed of 370 sheets with combinations of diverse philosophical texts and a black line code created by the artist. Furthermore, this volume contains illustrations of nature and it has a classical page structure with headers and chapters.

Though the text combinations build structures whereby the readability gets lost, the header text, taken from one of the first botany books we know, The Book of Plants by the Arab Al Dirawani, is well readable and in alphabetical order. So is the header text of the illustrations out of Jaques Derrida: Archive Fever, A Freudian Impression

The other texts are by Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity and Essays on Magic; Claude Levi Strauss: Savage Mind; Giorgio Agamben: The Open: Man and Animal; Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason; Jaques Derrida: The Animal That Therefore I am

Thinking is a process of categorization and judgments tracked mainly in written language. Archives are hereby architectures of collection and control. The text combination is playing with referring and differing issues which never reach original meaning; reflecting on dependencies between perception and structuring thinking.

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