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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Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics

Anab Jain medium.com

When we open ourselves to the voices of the more-than-human world, this is always the result: a breaching and collapsing of the established borders of thought and feeling.

James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

We have been living a myth. We have constructed a dream. We have cajoled and seduced ourselves into believing we are the center of all things; with plants and other sentient beings from ants to lizards to coyotes and grizzly bears, remaining subservient to our whims, desires, and needs. This is a lethal lie that will be seen by future generations a... See more

Terry Tempest Williams • The Pall Of Our Unrest

Enlightenment thinkers once disparaged animist ideas as backwards and unscientific. They considered them to be a barrier to capitalist expansion, and sought desperately to stamp them out. But today science is beginning to catch up. Biologists are discovering that humans are not standalone individuals, but composed largely of microorganisms on which

Jason Hickel • Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

multi-species anthropologist Anne Galloway’s work, who was simply asking “What if we deny that human beings are exceptional? What if we stop speaking and listening only to ourselves?

Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics

James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

Terry Tempest Williams • The Pall Of Our Unrest

Jason Hickel • Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

Medium • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics