PHILOSOPROPS: A UNIFIED FIELD GUIDE by Alyce Santoro (2013)
Homeopathic Remedies for the 5 Ills of Society.
‘Philosoprops’ are devices,implements, or illustrations.
In this crowdfunded hundred page book Alyce Santoro, an American marine biologist with an artistic bent, provides a thought-provoking guide to how her “sharable forms of expression” can help people to think differently about their surroundings and relationships with others.
Via this publication and her ‘Center For The Obvious & (Im)Permacultural Research’, her aim is to produce audio/visual prompts that challenge common misconceptions about the environment and society.
Her work is humourous and quirky but her motives are serious. She is fired by a profound opposition to the profit obsessions of corporate interests.
Her actions are motivated by the belief that we should “cease to be passive consumers and become engaged social architects”. Continue reading
