CONTEXTUALISATION- Lecture 3

More than Human / Staying with the trouble
  • -Other forms of being, not only human, are also active in an environment or ecology or society, even if
  • they are not living in the biological sense .

  • -Institutes, practices, knowledge are established at every age, it is these links between bodies,
  • institutions,etc.. That power relationship are structured from above. 

  • -Must all relations begin and end w humans? 

  • -STAY WITH THE TROUBLE also from nonhuman perspective. think/respond to the world collectively.
  • This kind of framework, as a way of staying with the trouble, is more effective to imagine a future. A
  • Chtlucene is comprised of ongoing multispecies stories.

  • -we require each other in unexpected collaborations and combinations, in hot compost piles. We become
  • each other or not at all. That kind of material semiotics is always situated, someplace and not noplace,
  • entangled and worldly. 

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