Sep 11, 2019
So the being grows rings; identity becomes robust
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
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So the being grows rings; identity becomes robust
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
The Rambunctious Garden, 2018.
Showing at Firstdraft in Sydney, February 7 - March 2, 2018.
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Direct, prereflective perception is inherently synaesthetic, participatory, and animistic, disclosing the things and elements that surround us not as inert objects but as expressive subjects, entities, powers, potencies. And yet most of us seem, today, very far from such experience. Trees rarely, if ever, speak to us; animals no longer approach us as emissaries from alien zones of intelligence; the sun and the moon no longer draw prayers from us but seem to arc blindly across the sky. […]
Only as we begin to notice and to experience, once again, our immersion in the invisible air do we start to recall what it is to be fully a part of this world… This breathing landscape is no longer just a passive backdrop against which human history unfolds, but a potentized field of intelligence in which our actions participate.
— David Abram
Orthodox “Western” understandings of nature feel inadequate to the kinds of world-making that fungi perform. As our historical narratives of progress have come to be questioned, so the notion of history itself has become remodelled. History no longer feels figurable as a forwards-flighting arrow or a self-intersecting spiral; better, perhaps, seen as a network branching and conjoining in many directions. Nature, too, seems increasingly better understood in fungal terms: not as a single gleaming snow-peak or tumbling river in which we might find redemption, nor as a diorama that we deplore or adore from a distance — but rather as an assemblage of entanglements of which we are messily part. We are coming to understand our bodies as habitats for hundreds of species of which Homo sapiens is only one, our guts as jungles of bacterial flora, our skins as blooming fantastically with fungi.
— Robert Macfarlane
The Politics of “Don't Tread on Me” Is Breaking Us: The Myth of Independence
I just finished reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand again, and it no longer feels like a book sitting on a shelf—it feels like a set of ideas unfolding in the world around us. What was once philosophical has become political. We hear it in calls to “Don’t Tread on Me,” in the dismantling of social safety nets, and in efforts to strip away systems built on shared responsibility. Strength is being…
The Anthropocene: Challenging the Disciplines
The Anthropocene: Challenging the Disciplines
Workshop Report (8th April 2019, Vienna, Austria) Vienna Anthropocene Network, University of Vienna
By Eugenio Luciano
On April 8th, the University of Vienna hosted the workshop “The Anthropocene: Challenging the Disciplines” organized by the recently established Vienna Anthropocene Network. The 12th floor Sky Lounge of the university building at Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 granted…
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2020 Visions for Environmental History: The Trouble with Conferences (Part 1)
2020 Visions for Environmental History: The Trouble with Conferences (Part 1)
This is the first post in a series on “2020 Visions for Environmental History” being published jointly by NiCHE’s blog The Otter ~ La loutre and Rachel Carson Center’s blog Seeing the Woods, with posts by Lisa Mighetto, Alan MacEachern, Arielle Helmick, and Claudia Leal. The series is intended to promote discussion at a session of the same name at the World Congress for Environmental History in…
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LUNCHTIME COLLOQUIA, SUMMER 2018
LUNCHTIME COLLOQUIA, SUMMER 2018
Oceans, tourism development, geopolitics, Anthropocene, and much more during the 2018 Summer Semester at the Rachel Carson Center.
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12 April 2018:
Serenella Iovino on “Reading the Anthropocene with Italo Calvino”
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