Office for Contemporary Art Norway

This lecture by Vandana Shiva held on 3 June 2011 at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in Venice is the third public lecture of the programme ‘The State of Things’, commissioned by the Office for Contemporary Art Norway and organised by its director, Marta Kuzma and OCA's associate curator, Pablo Lafuente, together with Peter Osborne, director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University in London.

Vandana Shiva, with this lecture, titled The War Against the Earth speaks about the dominant economy who myopically focuses on the working of the market, ignoring both nature's economy and the sustenance economy, on which it depends. Shiva proposes instead manners of making peace with the Earth through the notion of 'Earth democracy'.