There is no good reason to distinguish between nonhumans that are ‘natural’ and ones that are ‘artificial’, by which we mean…
There is no good reason to distinguish between nonhumans that are ‘natural’ and ones that are ‘artificial’, by which we mean made by humans. It just becomes too difficult to sustain such distinctions. Since, therefore, an artwork is itself a nonhuman being, this solidarity in the artistic realm is already solidarity with nonhumans, whether or not art is explicitly ecological. Ecologically explicit art is simply art that brings this solidarity with the nonhuman to the foreground. Timothy Morton. 2021. All Art is Ecological. London: Penguin Books.