TY - JOUR AU - Gregorio Tenti PY - 2021/08/02 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Aesthetic Terraforming. Cosmo-morphologies for Troubled Times JF - Aesthetica Preprint JA - aesthetica-preprint VL - 0 IS - 117 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://www.mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/aesthetica-preprint/article/view/1679 AB - Although more common in science-fiction than in philosophy, the concept of terraforming intercepts a particularly significant vein of contemporary thought. The world-making practices belong to an ancient morphological art that brings together humans and other species: every living being, as such, shapes an Earth, thus becoming a condition of life itself. Moreover, every living being does so together with other beings, following the systemic structure of life. This paper aims to introduce a cosmo-morphic aesthetics through the concept of terraforming, which literally means the act of shaping a planet into a habitable world. We will claim that this concept evokes different understandings of the traditional notions of artefact, creative act and artistic doing, particularly in relation to the ideas of non-objectivability, deep agency and ecopoiesis. ER -