We Are Not the Only "Who"
“If you want to survive in this organization, you shouldn’t use the words you use. Words like ‘more-than-human’ or ‘otherwise’...” Someone told me this a while ago and probably many of you often come across comments like that. Re-reading my fav book, I found this quote:“The way we talk about this life and living, the language we use, builds a kind ... See more
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It is a beautiful illustration of the kind of decentring of ourselves and of human experience at which we must become adept in order to live better and more responsibly in a more-than-human world. This decentring, an admission that the human race is not the only game in town, does not correspond to any reduction of our world.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Such philosophies emphasize that we humans dwell within, not apart from, the network of felt relations, human and ecological, that shape our lives; and that we have possibilities for living creatively and compassionately amid these relations
Ecological Civilization
“Nature-based communities don’t have a voice because [modern] governance structures do not have a place for their voices. These ways of living with the land can disappear so quickly when they’re seen as primitive, not innovative.” — Julia Watson
Medium • 11: Post-traumatic urbanism and radical indigenism
Once again, in imagining better ways of living with non-humans, computational or biological, we must be attentive to their own ways of speaking and making meaning, and not simply insist that they learn to speak, and think, and behave, in the ways that we do.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
if we wish to see change in the world we need to start rewriting our cultural script, to begin constructing transformational new narratives that appeal to our noblest selves and encourage us to keep our more selfish desires in check. As Terrence McKenna put it, ‘if you’re not the hero of your own novel, then what kind of novel is it? You need to do
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