#entangled landscape

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Donna Haraway Story Telling For Earthly Survival : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Donna Haraway - Storytelling for Earthly Survival

see also: https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/27/chapter-abstract/97747/The-Camille-StoriesChildren-of-Compost?redirectedFrom=fulltext

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Trees, More-Than-Human Collectives

Bojana Piškur looks to trees to ask,

Who is actually given the privilege to speak in the name of nature(s)? What is the right way to “represent” the thing we call “nature”?

Recent criticism has focused on the way nonhumans are included in discussions of nature, ecology, and climate change. This critique says that speaking for the nonhuman is unproductive, and thinking on their behalf only supports existing humanist ideologies that anthropomorphize and patronize other species. Astrida Neimanis, for one, has written about the ways that nonhuman “others” are represented. She proposes a “representation without colonization,” pointing to the questionable ethics and politics of humans who position themselves as spokespeople for nonhuman beings.

For him, this “true nature” could be best observed in a virgin forest, an ecological space eternally growing in cyclical patterns, where death and life are intertwined. In other forests where humans have intervened, such cycles are not so visible, since dead trees are cleared and new trees planted. In an old-growth forest, a dead tree can be more abundant with life than a living tree. A forest is not the sum of its tree-parts. It is more than that: an ecosystem based on complex, intertwined relationships among plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and other organisms. 

We need to practice a politics of solidarity with nonhumans. One example of this kind of solidarity is recent multispecies ethnographic research, which enables humans to envision new ways to comprehend nonhumans. The relationship between nature and culture, has been a major subject of debate throughout Western history where nature is considered “other” in relation to culture. Many thinkers have recently challenged this assumption, through terms like “transversality” nature-culture “hybridity.” 

There are three ethical frameworks often mentioned in the context of environment ethics. “Biocentrism,” “entangled empathy,” and “flourishing.”

Zoonotic pathogens (such as SARS-CoV-2) that spread among humans do not act intentionally, but in response to the disturbance and destruction of their natural ecosystems. One of the primarily reasons for viral outbreaks in recent years is deforestation (especially of tropical forests), which leads humans to come into contact with “wild” animals, which carry pathogens. The logic is very simple: if forests are destroyed, all life on the planet will sooner or later be gone too. How do we become better at recognizing “more-than-human” modes of life without anthropomorphizing nonhuman life? How do we practice care, freedom, justice, and equality with nonhumans? How do we mobilize a broad front to demand more just environmental politics?

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Feral Atlas

Feral: having escaped from domestication and become wild

In Feral Atlas, Invasion worlds join worlds of Empire, Capital, and Acceleration.

https://feralatlas.supdigital.org/

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LaToya Ruby Frazier Makes Moving Pictures — Art21

Art21 is a celebrated global leader in presenting thought-provoking and sophisticated content about contemporary art, and the go-to place to learn first-hand from the artists of our time. A nonprofit organization, Art21’s mission is to inspire a more creative world through the works and words of contemporary artists. Art21 produces the Peabody Award-winning PBS-broadcast series,

LaToya Ruby Frazier

The importance of becoming the subject yourself...

"Your environment impacts the body and it shapes how you perceive yourself in the world"

Environmental racism: racial discrimination in environmental policy making, the enforcement of regulations and laws, the deliberate targeting of communities of color for toxic waste facilities, the official sanctioning of the life-threatening presence of poisons and pollutants in our communities, and the history of excluding people of color from leadership of the ecology movements (wikipedia)

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Permaculture is an approach to land management and philosophy that adopts arrangements observed in flourishing natural ecosystems. t includes a set of design principles derived using whole systems thinking. It uses these principles in fields such as regenerative agriculture, rewilding, and community resilience. Permaculture originally came from "permanent agriculture", but was later adjusted to mean "permanent culture", incorporating social aspects as inspired by Masanobu Fukuoka's natural farming. The term was coined by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in 1978, who formulated the concept in opposition to Western industrialized methods and in congruence with Indigenous or traditional knowledge.

"Permaculture, originally 'Permanent Agriculture', is often viewed as a set of gardening techniques, but it has in fact developed into a whole design philosophy, and for some people a philosophy for life. Its central theme is the creation of human systems which provide for human needs, but using many natural elements and drawing inspiration from natural ecosystems. Its goals and priorities coincide with what many people see as the core requirements for sustainability."

Permaculture tackles how to grow food, build houses and create communities, and minimise environmental impact at the same time.

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Neha Hivre - In a light that is leaving

In the woods between Cologne and Aachen, there are people living in this forest. They are waiting it out until the inevitable ‘Day X,’ when they will be evicted, their treehouse homes destroyed by the police, and the last of forest will be cut down forever.

Hambacher Forest in Germany is home to a group of eco-anarchists fighting against Germany’s biggest power company, RWE.

On September 13, 2018, what the activists have named “Day X,” or Eviction Day, finally arrived. The police began a massive eviction of the area in what is estimated to be one of the largest and longest police operations in North Rhine Westphalia. Special forces and police systematically evicted and destroyed the treehouses and arrested activists for 5 days before a journalist accidentally died, halting the process temporarily. The area was marked as a danger zone, which restricted the rights of the occupants, and prevented civilians from entering the forest.

https://www.areweeurope.com/stories/light-that-is-leaving-neha-hirve

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Hyperobjects

A word to describe all kinds of things that you can study and think about and compute, but that are not so easy to see directly.

The concept of hyperobjects gives us a single word to describe something on the tips of our tongues. It’s very difficult to talk about something you cannot see or touch, yet we are obliged to do so, since global warming affects us all.

Hyperobjects are objects which have a vitality to them but you can't touch them, like race or class, or climate change. Their effects may be experienced even if they cannot be necessarily touched.

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The wild species of carnation (qirnefîl in Kurdish, dianthus in Latin) are at home in the lands around the Mediterranean sea. Since ancient times carnation is used in medicinal and ritual/symbolic ways by humans. Carnation can heal sicknesses of the nerves and of the heart, it reliefs fevers, pain, stress, muscle spams, chest congestions, excessive... Read More

Marwa Arsanios

The flowers of the carnation plant are solitary, bisexual, sweetly scented and have become imbued with anti-hegemonic political symbolism during the 19th and 20th century – they carry feminist, socialist, anti-colonial and revolutionary affiliations as well as traumatic memory (red) and they bloom queerness (green).

My first ecological teacher was my mother. She taught me that we as humans have a place in nature, like trees and birds. I have the right to exist, like all other species in the same place.

Self-defense, eco-feminism, ownership, healing, resisting, state control, autonomy, collectivity, indigenous struggle, seed protection, and land rights define the common ground of women who are resisting extractivist industries.

How are we choosing to live and survive today? Can ideologies be transformative? How can life be fostered within the context of military conflict and war? […]