Truthfulness and truth claims as transmedial phenomena

Between Iron and Flora: Ecocritical Views on the Sculpture of Narcissus in the Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro

“…To analyze the current condition of this eighteenth-century work, the study draws upon Ecocritical Theory, also known as Ecocriticism (Garrad 2004), and concepts such as the Anthropocene (Crutzen 2000, 17) and Post-Anthropocene. The former indicates a period of massive human influence that destabilizes the non-human natural history and triggers the ongoing environmental crisis (Bruhn, 2023(Bruhn, , 1034, while the latter suggests a future time of overcoming the former. The term Green Humanism (Westling 2002) was coined to define the end of the period of human domination over the Earth in the Post-Anthropocene era.…”

“…Ecocriticism, originally based in literary studies, is defined as the study of the relationship between the human realm and non-human dimensions across human cultural history and its literary and artistic productions, owing to their great ability to communicate the complexities of our relations with nature (Garrad 2004, 5;Bruhn 2023Bruhn , 1038. Because Ecocriticism is a recent field of study, boosted by current environmental problems, the concepts and terms associated with it are still being developed and updated by researchers, which is why its perspectives and terminology are manifold.…”