Prosthetic Ecologies

“Prosthetic ecologies” reflects on the Worldwide impact caused by intensive farming. Intensive farming results from a combination of machine landscapes, international information systems and international trade. It is fueling a rampant and dangerous planetary transformation characterized by the lack of insight, vision or effective international governance. Among the most worrying negative consequences are: biodiversity loss, pollution and increasing inequalities. The result is, in the best case scenario, accidental; where a few number of human based actors make decisions that affect the future of vast territories.

The project aims to cause unrest and discomfort by envisioning possible future scenarios coming from a highly efficient prosthesis designed for the purpose of intensive farming that has the potential of replacing the Earth Crust. This  bio-inspired and seductive intensive farming machine showcases the possibilities emerging from humans’ capacity to abstract biological processes. Building on Benjamin Bratton ontology,  The Stack, a system of technocratic interdependent layers guided by individual agency and information exchange builds up an accidental future leaving no room for ethics or morality. The project shows how things can easily shift from Utopia to dystopia when information systems and machine landscapes fall in the wrong hands; reflecting on the consequences brought by Worldwide technological development in a context of accidental governance.