Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
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Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Where we start to move forward is when we learn to ask questions which are less concerned with ‘Are you like us?’, and more interested in ‘What is it like to be you?’
we must discover an ecology of technology.
In short, we must discover an ecology of technology.
Whether or not we come from love, we are capable of it. We are made with others.
how are we changed by encountering non-human senses and a non-human impression of the world?
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.
In doing so, we might change the way we think about the world, and thus chart a path towards a future which is less extractive, destructive and unequal, and more just, kind and regenerative.
Every discipline discovers its own ecology in time, as it shifts inexorably from the walled gardens of specialized research towards a greater engagement with the wider world.
Technology, understood as our interface with the material world, is that human practice which most closely ties us to our context and our environment.