More than Human: Making with the Living World at the Design Museum is also worth seeing.

https://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/more-than-human

But a quick heads-up: the subtitle is more accurate than the title. It’s really about making WITH the nonhuman - plants, animals, ecosystems - not BY the more-than-human. The human still takes centre stage. A missed opportunity, perhaps, to explore what truly more-than- or other-than-human design can look like.

Humans, Homo sapiens, humanity, we need no borders. Naturally. We evolved to walk wherever we liked. Together. In time.

The last few days, we've got to realize, we need #noborders

#science no borders #climateaction no borders #medicalaid no borders #migration no borders #labour no borders #care no borders #moon no borders #tides no borders #earth no borders #ocean no borders #life no borders #water no borders #health no borders #ritual no borders #morethanhuman no borders #nokings no borders #nomads no borders

Or maybe the way to say it is, no borders in space but in time (remembering the King of Time #VelimirKhlebnikov)

This comes from a lovely piece on Khlebnikov by our own Chris Knight:-
'Khlebnikov’s fundamental political position was that the world should have no borders. That was partly due to his upbringing: the camels and horses in the camp where he grew up were not interested in borders. Throughout his life, he remained committed to the nomadic values of the Kalmyk people.

'But, although Khlebnikov hated territorial borders, he loved the idea of borders in time. He did not want fences, customs posts and certainly not trenches (remember this is going on during World War I, when people were fighting for a few yards of squelching, blood-stained mud). But what about borders in time? When people sing together, they must all keep to the same beat and sing each note together. Synchronising the voice means being aware of borders in time. Once the whole planet is singing, the only borders will be in the dimension of time. Natural rhythms, such as human heartbeats, the sun, the moon and the tides, would be used to set up these borders. He considered it vital not to transgress borders in time - they were needed if the world’s inhabitants were to get on with one another. By contrast, borders in space were in his eyes just bloodshed and murder.'
https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1248/prophet-and-poet-of-russian-revolution/

#lunarchy
#flourishingdiversity
#HumanRevolution

My contribution to the 700th Disquiet Junto. Thinking about our place in the more-than-human world.

https://soundcloud.com/raincat-306596410/green-presence-disquiet0700

More on the 700th weekly Disquiet Junto project, View Frame — The Assignment: Share a peek out your window and some sounds inspired by the view — at https://disquiet.com/0700/

'Times may be getting tougher but a hell of a lot of people are committed to doing good. And the best of the good is the #nature that makes up our planet.' https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/718b5dba-b9d3-448b-96a7-38e99d4ef017

My new blog post about #writing in hard times, developing a story, messy mind palace rooms, #accents, and the sweet poison of #passion. @writers @writing

Are you curious how I invented my micro-macro-amplifyer and why I like Dr Who? How I learned from a BBC colleague that a bed is important for work? Do you want to imagine a grey haired woman watching childrens' TV and having a culture clash thanks to Audacity? How I came to podcasting (part 1) https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/e7f309ce-2f1e-46f0-ba80-e8e86b6a8430

@JosephMeyer Please don't insult invertebrae and the #moreThanHuman world. You will see that many invertebrates are on a higher level of evolution than some politicians.

#MoreThanHuman #risk #anthropology: #cetaceans beach https://doi.org/10.1017/S1473550416000252 while:
1. #Ostriches do not bury their heads https://doi.org/10.1080/00359199509520346
2. #Lemmings do not complete mass suicide https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtu015
3. #Elephants likely forget https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-024-00655-y
4. #Frogs will not boil alive in slowly-heated water https://doi.org/10.1086/physzool.41.4.30155478 (or https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/12/07/3085614.htm )
 
Any others?
 
#DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #Animals #AnimalsInDisasters

Conservation cannot succeed without #Indigenous #knowledge. Expertise is needed in the #morethanhuman

https://environment.princeton.edu/news/how-indigenous-knowledge-can-reshape-conservation/

FREE community #fediscience, please BOOST!

This evening in London
Everybody welcome, just turn up!
LIVE or ZOOM

Tues Nov 12 18:30 (London UK)
with #DeniseArnold
LIVE @UCLanthropology
And on ZOOM

'Sea shells, women's blood and an Andean bioclimatology of water'

LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW

ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

Denise Arnold explores the mutual rearing practices between Andean populations and water, in its different manifestations, as a key life-giving element in their mountainous habitat. Andean animist ontologies recognise how humans and water flow are constituted mutually, through a dynamic relationality, which extends to other aquatic phenomena, including the sea-shell Spondylus princeps. This knowledge is learned and transmitted between the generations in the rites of passage of adolescent girls and boys, when they learn an interdependence with water, establish relations with water beings, and practice equivalences between their own blood flow and water flow.

Examined in this context are Inka rites of passage, a school ritual focused on learning about water flow, a female rite of passage when women learn to use particular designs and colours in their weavings, and a ritual offering of Spondylus to high mountain shrines. These practices are situated in the emerging discipline of bioclimatology.

Denise, an Anglo-Bolivian anthropologist, directs the Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Aymara, in La Paz, Bolivia. She will be LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW. Please arrive by 6:30pm before doors close. Or join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

Preparing for a talk to help kick off a new European Union’s Horizon 2022 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network called Reworlding. Revisiting some work on #morethanHuman and #ParticipatoryDesign.

https://reworlding.eu/events

#Microscopic for #SciArtSeptember insights in my #BiodiversityShrines project. I had a real exhibition, still online with photos here: https://www.cronenburg.net/reliquaires/ In calmer times, I want to make more ... the material is waiting. But I need a lot of inner peace and patience for this kind of work. @embroidery @fiberarts @fibrearts

My occasional invitation to anyone who might like to sign up to my newsletter on my artworks about networks: https://shanefinan.org/newsletter.html

It's where I structure a lot of thoughts. I send one every 3 months or so, and they're a little bit like blog posts. The most recent one is also at that link, for a taster.

Delphi Carstens & I recently published another critical pedagogical piece - this time on #irruptions, #irruptivemethodology & #posthumanist #pedagogies for #morethanhuman #crisistimes. See https://shorturl.at/lI4ii or PM me for a copy!

@philosophy

Pre-announcement: Eight New Doctoral Researcher Positions on #FixingFutures at #GoetheUniversity, Frankfurt, Germany

Relevant for #sts, #anthropology, #ethnography, #sociology, #geography students interested in #UnSustainabilities, #temporalities, #anticipation, #moreThanHuman methodologies.

@sts

https://fixingfutures.eu/2024/07/pre-announcement-new-doctoral-researcher-positions-rtg-fixing-futures/

A friend of mine wrote a wonderful text on "the significance of moss in our lives and the interconnection between humans and more-than-human entities". If you are into moss, you would definitely enjoy this essay.

- Their post: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6Vo2IvCf6q
- Direct link to the essay: https://zenodo.org/records/11080340

The deadline for our call for submissions has been extended to 22 March 2024. We have also added examples and resources for zine-making to our website https://morethanhumanfreedom.wordpress.com/resources/.

We are delighted to share with you our call for submissions for a zine-based conference on more-than-human freedom. Inspired by the first zine-based conference organised by the Low-Carbon Research Methods Group, this conference aims to bring together scholars and artists to produce and disseminate low-carbon, free, and accessible knowledge around the capability of self-willed ecologies to sustain and reproduce themselves. We invite contributors to address this theme by making use of the experimental and DIY character of zines, which will be printed and circulated among participants by post.

Please, find below the original text of the call, find more resources on our website https://morethanhumanfreedom.wordpress.com/ and feel free to contact us at morethanhumanfreedom2024@gmail.com for any questions. We are looking forward to receiving your pitches!

Organized by Laura Andriessen (Ghent University, CARAM), Emelien Devos (Ghent University, CARAM) and Alessandro Guglielmo (University of Milan)

@anthroplogy@a.gup.pe @ecologies

The amazing LeVar Burton chose a story from SOLARPUNK CREATURES to read on his podcast!

Check out "Quarropts Can't Dance" by Rodrigo Culagovski ( @culagovski ) in this week's episode

#solarpunk #ScienceFiction #Multispecies #MoreThanHuman #SciFiStories #PodcastFiction #LeVarBurton #LeVarBurtonReads

https://link.chtbl.com/BTspjhoC