Immanent Spirituality: Art|Education in an Era of Digitalization

In this essay I attempt to develop two versions of spirituality that art and its education have drawn on to develop an approach to ecological art. In sum, the first version relies on an organic holism. It is conditioned by an anthropocentric understanding of Nature, and develops an educational orientation that advocates a balance between mind, body, and spirit. It promotes sustainability as its key approach. The second is a more radical posthumanist approach that attempts to decenter subjectivity, and hence deanthropocentricize Nature as a machinic phylum after the work of Deleuze|Guattari. The difference between the two can also be summed up as transcendental spirituality versus transcendent spirituality. The essay also attempts to show the historical developments of ecological art, beginning with Land art and then moving to Earth Art is then retheorized within the current anthropological period referred to as the Anthropocene.