“The brand of holist ecological philosophy that emphasizes that ‘everything is connected to everything,’ will not help us here. It runs contrary to what we read about the extinction of other species: the disappearance of the Chinese swordtail sturgeon the decreasing number of Western honeybees the diminishing diversity of birdsong or, as Pier Paolo Pasolini noted in his 1975 article “L’articolo delle lucciole”, the disappearance of the firefly. But just as global warming, trivially called ‘climate change,’ has only been perceived as significant in recent years in spite of impending climatic tipping moments having been debated since the 1970s, the increase in the octopus population has become newsworthy only rather recently. It has been going on for 60 years, to be precise, as statistics and the data of fisheries show. A wonderful octopus proliferation is underway-in our media environment as well as in the world’s oceans.
It tentacles… Having left behind Debord’s “society of the spectacle”, we have arrived in the midst of a new regime: the society of the tentacle. Images Sarah Browne Sarah Browne, Report to an Academy, 2016.
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