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In an essay called “Weird Ecology,” the writer David Tompkins compares Area X to a “hyperobject,” a term philosopher Timothy Morton used “to describe events or systems or processes that are too complex, too massively distributed across space and time, for humans to get a grip on.” Global warming, black holes, and mass extinction are contemporary ex... See more
e-flux • The Word Made Fresh: Mystical Encounter and the New Weird Divine - Journal #92
Thanks to these redundancies, the wood wide web is remarkably resilient; only a clear-cut can destroy it.
newpublic.org • The word for web is forest
John Muir famously wrote, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe,”
Paul Rosolie • Mother of God: An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon
We still need to live in some sort of recognition that humans can't hive themselves off into cities and pretend that nature happens outside the city, and inside the city is some fantastically controlled biome over which humans have dominion. That's not the way that the planet or ecology works.
Matthew J. Haugen • Interview: Raj Patel on agroecology, reparative approaches, and land reform
We are entering an age of increasingly unpredictable climatological change. We are entering an age when we must remember that the most important ideas may not belong to human beings, but to bacteria and insects and entire geographies.
A Generous Uncertainty
This “ecosystem of distribution, repair, and disposal” is, Burrell argues, a “fact of life in everyday places marked by scarcity.”