Contextual Journal:
Ecology and Embodiment
Ecology and Embodiment
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MUCH OF WHAT WE FIND TO BE BEAUTIFUL HAS EVOLVED OVER TIME, INTERACTING WITH THE ENVIRONMENT.
the Kaluli people of Papua New Guinea, whose songs echo nearby birds, insects, tree frogs, waterfalls and rain. The music, as one anthropologist put it, uses the wider landscape as a tuning fork. how architecture and design can interact – even play – more creatively with our wider environment. Lance Hosey, The Shape of Green Ecology = knowing home, the study of interrelations between living organisms and the environments in which they live.
Ecosystems involve: //living organisms //physical environment //a source of energy Embodied Ecologies: A conceptual framework for describing a fluidity between bodies and worlds that focuses on relations instead of bounded entities. What are the implications of imagining porous and receptive bodies that are intimately influenced by their surroundings both material and immaterial? |
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"To the things themselves" Pavel Semiotics "Whom and what do I touch when I touch my dog?" Anticipation and expectancy Biosemiotics Ecosemiotics Protosemitics Can you ever get to the thing? The experiencial moment when one forgets what one is. What is the role of nature writing? Minimise the distance between representation and the thing From the point of view of the thing. A tick knows three things: =acid =heat =light To Know What Life Knows Does biology know what life knows? |
Exercise: I sat with cowslips and vetch Eco signs = soil good for cowslips who have not morphed into primroses = diverse birdsong (5 species heard in 5 minutes) Bio signs = blackbird with a worm, ladybird on vetch Proto signs = wind in the trees like a release of breath, pleasure, eurphoria = how my feet led me to somewhere hidden and scruffy Shimmer spoolers as a way of getting to the thing. Shimmer as a way of reading biodiversity and noticing life systems in action Perhaps not so much translation as delight in side along play with the rest of life Veronica said an artist friend tells himself to call the tree a cake while he draws it in order not to draw what he expects is a tree Being with, following, playful mirroring, Oogly Boogly - a way of being with preverbal humans Effective writers: Tokarchuk Tove Baker, like My Octopus Teacher lives and breaths peregrine falcon, and works his own stuff out at the same time! ;) All of life experiments, moves to find out how to grow from the cell to lightning. It doesn't think first. Dance first, think later. Movement is faster than thought processes. Catherine Hales 'feasible strategems'? Katey Bently The Cellular Adaptive Behaviour lab. "Just like humans, cells continually sense their local environment and adapt their behaviour accordingly, either as individuals or as a group. They communicate and ‘decide’ whether to cooperate or compete with each other and they can dramatically change their shape or arrangement. Dr. Bentley’s research work attempts to create a deeper understanding of how this complex dance unfolds across time and space, from molecules, cells to tissues." |
Ways of knowing
Specific/constellation.....reductionism//generalism....reciprical//extractionist
Indigenous//exile/settler....antibiotic //probiotic....direct//peripheral
defensive//accepting...holding on//moving through...diverse//monocultural
scorn//humour
Specific/constellation.....reductionism//generalism....reciprical//extractionist
Indigenous//exile/settler....antibiotic //probiotic....direct//peripheral
defensive//accepting...holding on//moving through...diverse//monocultural
scorn//humour
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Gut Buddies:
Jamie Lorimer: Micro rewilding, Old friend microbes parasitic worms, helminths, are like a keystone species for gut ecosystems foecal transplants effective and licenced, we need contact with animals and soil, different reactions to covid are to do with resiliant guts, evolutionary role of the virus to exchange genetic material across species, which gives rise to more sophisticated species we are warm fleshy vehicles for the furtherance of microbial projects! Need a nuanced understanding of which microbial exposure desireable, vaccines are probiotics intensively farmed animals, globalised food system, dense urban living, monocultures of everything, make everything less resiliant, counter pathogens with diverse crops and farming How to combine a progressive political agenda with a progressive ecological vision. learn from indigenous people about reciprocity we prioritise charismatic species over unseen ones, the idealised countryside over the built environment wildlife antibiotic triumphs to optimise life for humans had gone too far, with unintended consequences, We simplify river systems and they flood, Monoculture forest systems cause fire |
Sarah Grey Body Mind Centering
Hollow gut We are one long gut second brain I felt very vulnerable in this session and had to hide behind a curtain upstairs. Others in the group had to walk away. Perhaps we needed to have done lots of physical work together first before this session. This kind of work gets to the protosemiotics!! I was able to come into the circle for the second half and enjoyed the belly to belly with Frederika I wanted to eat far less after it https://www.tsoel.org.uk/one-to-one Diversity is key to resiliance |
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Ecology and Embodiment Dr Marie Hale Protosemiotic responses in migration and bacteria The role of movement in ecological systems Embodiment: somatic microscales animal teachers Movement ecology: scale of movement from how do they move to how do they travel from micro organisms to macro, earth as organisms Embodiment also in terms of being with the other, looking with their eyes, empathy different scales of time and space =why move =how to move =when and where to move Moving /change is fundemental to life Dynamism of populations animism David Abrams: the more than human world (The centre for wild ethics) human non human (plants, animals) more than human (plants, animals, everything else) Bacteria tumbling Situation movement foraging = diet, habitat, food, safety dispersal = across home range to avoid competition/promote genetic diversity migration: 60% of birds migrate or soial, geographical contexts, climate change, war Human threats to ecosystems cause migration. |
Can your jellyfish sing?
the weave of the tactile intelligence and movement inherent in the practices of the tentacular
DANCE FIRST, THINK LATER
oogly boogly
cell growth
DANCE FIRST, THINK LATER
oogly boogly
cell growth