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  • Hi Koert | Regarding my suggestion for the use of the tag 'fake next nature' - I have noticed quite a few examples on this blog ... which are not much more than 'silly ideas'. | From my point of view, the new item from yesterday - "Egg improvements" - is a typical example of 'fake next nature', for I think we could easily agree that this is not much more than a silly idea. | Obviously, we will never see the 'integrated eggholder' arrive in real life (the example is photoshoped)... at best only as an example of ''fake nature'!!! | I hope you will now immeditately recognize that many more items at this blog ... could be described as 'fake next nature' - merely because they are not (yet?) true examples of NEXT NATURE. | :-) | PS. Koert, maybe a more specific alternative TAG-suggestion could be: 'photoshop next nature' ... the tag-name tells the story! ;-)

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  • Koert, thanks for sharing your definition of 'fake nature'! I like it because of it's simplicity - and I think this definition could be usefull to explain what NEXT NATURE is really (not) about. By the way ... I am also glad to see that the 'steam horse' is also labeled as an example of 'fake nature'!: https://nextnature.net/?p=3294 ;-)

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  • Fake nature = culture that tries to look like old nature. E.g. plastic flowers, indoor beaches, flower wallpapers, etc. - Appearances of fake nature typically idealize our notion of old nature and tend to be rather superficial, as only the visual layer of the natural phenomenon is imitated, whereas their pragmatic functioning is not copied (plastic flowers don’t need water, won’t blossom and don’t have a scent, at least not a flower scent). - Opposed to fake nature, next nature is about the transferal of natural processes in the cultural realm (culture becomes nature). Next nature typically doesn’t ‘look like’ old nature, yet we recognize a certain natural functioning in it (think for example of the internet, which doesn’t look like a flower, yet expands, feeds and seems to have a certain agency of its own that reminds us of phenomena we know from old nature). - It is true that that the ‘fake nature’ tag can be confusing, as the goal of this website is to re-investigate our concept of nature, yet in the ‘fake nature’ tag the word nature is used in the established classical meaning: when taking about fake nature, we usually mean ‘fake old nature’. - It might be appropriate to re-tag ‘fake nature’ as ‘fake old nature’? Regarding the proposal of a tag ‘fake next nature’, I don’t think we need it as I can’t think of many examples. Plastic flowers are definitely ‘fake old nature’. Also the faking that takes place in the examples of the ‘human garbage can’ and the ’steam horse’ is about the faking of old nature, hence they would also fall under that tag.

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  • Ok Koert, | Thank you for confirming that the object 'human trash can' itself doesn’t belong into the category NEXT NATURE. | By the way, I noticed that you are using a tag ‘fake nature’ … what does this really implicate? | For, just as the ‘plastic flower’ and the ‘human trash can’ could be described as examples of FAKE NEXT NATURE … I would NOT classify all other examples under the tag ‘fake nature’ as... FAKE NEXT NATURE??? | Maybe it would help if you introduce a tag named: ‘fake next nature’? | Just an idea. | Ciao!

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  • I felt it is an intelligent and artistic image that doesn't need any further explaining, yet now that you ask I can give it a go: I found the the 'human trash can' – a man made object that seems to say that 'man is trashed' – an interesting visualization One of the returning issues in the realm of nextnature is the question whether nextnature will in the end have positive effect on humanity or not. (Some have for instance suggested humans are the sex organs of a technological world, in a similar way that bees help in the flourishing of flowers). A common fear in this regard is that humanity might outsource itself and become obsolete. This is not something I believe or want to promote – in my view we get the nextnature we deserve and reflecting on the development could also help in recultivating nextnature for the best of humanity –, yet it is a fact this fear exist. I posted this human garbage can because it visualizes fear of humanity making itself obsolete via its own technology. Hence, it is not so much the object itself that is nextnature, rather the stories and debate it may evoke are relevant for our explorations in nextnature.

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  • Hi Koert, | From my point of view, a 'plastic flower' is about at the same distance from the concept NEXT NATURE, as this 'human garbage can' is. | So I am wondering: do you really consider the 'human garbage can' as an example of NEXT NATURE? ... And If so, could you explain what aspect makes this example is different from the 'plastic flower'? | Sincerely as always, | Martijn.

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