Rabbit Holes š³ļø #39
Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)
Arturo Escobar ā¢ 4 highlights
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ā¢ post-tragic (meaning and agency on the other side of despair)
ā¢ post-extrinsic (driven by new societal purposes)
ā¢ post-rational (open to ways of knowing that transcend and include the intellect),
ā¢ post-exploitation (reflective about the uses and abuses of power)
ā¢ post-tribal (whole-hearted togetherness in a world of love and power; an expansive
... See moreCreative Destruction ā¢ Rabbit Holes š³ļø #40
Extinction ā Precarity: The philosophical construct of considering ālife as precariousā (Ann Tsing) foregrounds both life and death. It focuses on how human existence is deeply interdependent with other life and therefore necessitates the need for care of others, the need for being vulnerable to others and to put unpredictable encounters at the... See more
Medium ā¢ Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics
āFlourishing: deep, vigorous growth, Thriving- To orient one- self toward the flourishing of life- human and more-than-human life-is to acknowledge that those lives exist and have inherent value, that we are directly and indirectly connected to those lives and have some responsibility to them, and that we are therefore called upon to act on that
... See moreGlobal ā Terrestrial; Producing ā Engendering: for these two frames, I am taken by Latourās idea of āterrestrialā as a move towards post-human exceptionalism. His proposal explores the possibility of 'de-centring the human', and acknowledging that we are in constant interaction with other beings and natural phenomena. And more importantly, a demand... See more