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Conclusion


In The World Without Us, [53] Alan Weisman writes "'If the human race disappeared,' says ornithologist Steve Hilty, 'we'd have a world without us. At least a third of the birds on the planet may not even be aware of it.'" He also discussed Ling Xia (a pseudonym) in COUNTDOWN, [54] stating. gDuring the first quarrer of this century, half the world's new buildings will be built in China.h gIn 2012, China was adding another million people every seven weeks.h gLin Xia recalls another slogan, from the Chinese National Population Planning and Family Planning Commission: 'Mother Earth is too tired to sustain more children.fh

Lucas John Mix, in Life in Space [55], states. "The study of life in space will require cross-fertilization from many fields of knowledge cosmology, physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, and information sci-ence. It may even draw on philosophy, psychology, computer science, and other fields. We stand at the very beginning of a very big project."

Richard Meyer, in WHAT WAS CONTEMPORARY ART? [56], writes: "The remarkable immediacy of the contemporary art world is likely to overwhelm our ability to think critically about the relationship between the present and the past" (and to "calm down, take a breath, and think about history better than we do ourselves").

What will art do now that we are already experiencing what could be called "Human Fatigue" (the shift from "art for humans" to ART AFTER HUMAN will only be recognized and understood when we understand what it is art is for)? It will only be recognized when we know what art is for. It will be the ART FOR X, created by combining all knowledge, that no one else probably knows about yet. Do we have to wait for some time to come? Or has its mutation already occurred somewhere in the world? How will this art change the ARTMIND?



[53] Alan Wiseman, The World Without Us (London: Vergine Books, 2007).
[54] Alan Wiseman, Countdown (New York: Back Bay Books, 2013).
[55] Lucas John Mix, Life in Space: Astrobiology for Everyone (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009).
[56] Richard Mayer, WHAT WAS CONTEMPORARY ART? (Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2013).

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