post-Enlightenment strategies

"...We 'know' about climate change, but there has been no en masse abandonment of cars, no mass migration to dense urban centers to shrink our carbon footprint, no sudden antishopping spree-in fact, no significant lifestyle changes. A fundamental conceit of the Enlightenment is that knowledge leads to action. And it is the artists who are producing the post-Enlightenment strategies."

-Natalie Jeremijenko, from her article 'Artspeak' in Seed magazine, Dec/Jan 2007