Enlivenment
http://www.kosmosjournal.org/article/the-enlivenment-manifesto-politics-and-poetics-in-the-anthropocene/
I like this manifesto/movement for Enlivenment, going beyond the Enlightenment approaches to sustainability which are too Anthropocene (technoculture, seeing nature as dead matter or as resource).Â
It calls for a shift from techne to poiesis, which is something I support.Â
It concludes with this summaryÂ
A policy of life strives for the following:
A global ecological agriculture, which secures yields by enhancing biodiversity and human existential experiences (meaning and joy); which integrates and does not separate.
An economy that does not support the âuseâ of resources in a âmarketâ built on âobjectivityâ and separation but enlarges the possibilities to participate in a shared planetary metabolism of commons economy and is guided by an understanding of economic exchange as the shared household of the biosphere.
A culture that no longer functions according to the income-generating model of private economics but participates in a cocreative process of production.
A biology that understands organisms not only as ecosystem-service providers and molecular toolboxes but also as creative subjects, and which sees humans as a metabolic part of a biosphere enmeshed with life and feeling.
An education that teaches an Art of Living and Connection; that does not follow only a standard of abstract knowledge, functionalistic technology, and âdead worldâ thought; that reduces valuations and judgements.
A policy that understands regional administrative entities as self-organizing commons and does not follow rules of universal abstraction and selfish market interests.
A shared livelihood with other beings in line with the South American creation ethos of âBuen Vivirâ or the idea of âConvivialityâ by CaillĂŠ et al., that is, a solidarity of existence with all beings.33,34
A regenerative transformation of the fractures and contradictions inherent in any connection, creation, and in life itself, in line with a bravery of being and an imaginative practice of aliveness with âmanners, grace and styleâ (Gary Snyder).18














