Governing with the more-than-human world

Exploring the intersection of democracy and the natural world, discussing the importance of governing with, not just for, the more-than-human world, and practical ways to incorporate this perspective.

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Coined by the American ecologist and philosopher David Abram, the ‘more-than-human world’ refers to a way of thinking which seeks to override our human tendency to separate ourselves from the natural world.
from Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle
A politics that gives us a new kind of relational agency to help us imagine alternatives for living with and through global warming. A politics which allows us to invent new practices of more-than-human care, humility, imagination, interdependence, resistance, revolt, loss, mourning and resurgence.
from Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics by Medium
Keely Adler added
For the largest part of our species’ existence, humans have negotiated relationships with every aspect of the sensuous surroundings, exchanging possibilities with every flapping form, with each textured surface and shivering entity that we happened to focus upon. All could speak, articulating in gesture and whistle and sigh a shifting web of meanin
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from The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram
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from Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle

from Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics by Medium

from The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram