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Nous Of Cosmos Era- Engineering Existence Into Trans-Species

Figure 4 | The Manufacturing Lnadscape; China

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Figure 5 | E- waste Recycling ;China They also present us with new forms of spatiality and aesthetics which are often known as destructive in nature but also makes us question when the ideal idea of nature has now become utopic , how do we go forward to evolve? When the human is part of nature , does artificial also become nature?

The manufacturing and landfill and recycling landscapes provide the reality of the colgies that are being generated and ignored from the human lifestyle. These trash and waste substances that have long life cycles are consumed and disregarded into an invisible land farm from the immediate reality.The imagery of microchips collected to recycle, suggestive of spatial topography when investigated thoroughly provokes a dominant materiality. This Flow of materials which also provides us with information on the planet that are inherently made of minerals dug from earth are also the ones that are radically transforming the compositions of the landscape. Their presence is a massive distribution in space and time.The anthropocene then reconfigures itself to be an era where the ideal idea of geology is being questioned. When the artificial is becoming a dominant characteristic to identify with, what we call as ecologies , territories and landscapes have to be rethought. The information , digital spaces proves to be the actuator of transformation of the physical territories.

These informational and digital systems have now become a necessity to read, understand and adapt to planetary changes that they cause. Satellite information is amongst the first to bring the balck box into existence. These robots are now the only source through which humans can capture the ongoings on the planet .Machine visions provide an interesting point of view. Landsat8 captures imagery in strips which is the result of the way landsat operates, conveying that data collection and processing are virtual systems of consuming information that provide different ways of reading the planet. Thus humans depend on non-human visions to navigate the world. This co-dependent relationship of humans with technology proves to be the key mechanism that has a hyper presence and is accelerating economic, urban and global changes at a greater speed each passing day.

The Anthropocene is also a time space where the agency of the non-human and machines alike are being embraced to cause evolution. When machines investigate Animals and humans which have the ability of light sensing molecules on their skin. In a way these molecules are sensing the light as information to enforce a behavioural response , then essentially all planetary scale operations to humans and non humans are consuming information through different forms of intelligence. Thus, machine visions are now opening up new visuals and spaces that humans couldn’t have been perceived without the machines. They provide access to unfamiliar virtual spaces , visions and scales of the world pertaining the object in examination, human point of view then respostions itself to be a part of the larger system.

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