New publication: More-than-Human
LONDON
.- The More-than-Human reader brings together texts by writers across a wide array of disciplines that serve to reflect on the state of post-anthropocentric thinking today. Focusing on the ecologies and technologies of climate injustice and inequalities, as well as the destructive structures lurking within anthropocentrism, More-than-Human proposes complex entanglements, frictions, and reparative attention across species and beings. Thinking past the centrality of the human subject, the texts that compose this reader begin to imagine networks of ethics and responsibility emerging not from the ideologies of old, but from the messy and complex liveliness around us, and underfoot.
Tosh Basco, tarax’sup?, 2020. Cover art. Courtesy the artist
If you’re feeling a little downbeat today on the Winter Equinox (Brexit? What Brexit? Go swivel Covid), then please seek solace in a short meditative sound work available on the Serpentine Galleries website called
tarax’sup? The audio piece is written and performed by the Qatari-US artist Sophia Al-Maria, with a musical score by Kelsey Lu and cover work by US photographer Tosh Basco (boychild). The work focuses on the dandelion, centring on the ‘seeding’ of ideas, kinship, and nature, along with “abolitionist thinking through breathwork, deep listening and the principles of guided meditation imagery”, a statement says. There is another facet to this spiritual musing as 21 December is a solstice astronomers are calling The Great Conjunction, whereby Jupiter and Saturn will have their closest observable coalescence since 1623 (in other words, they nudge a little closer in a great big pla
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