A sympoietic stream of consciousness; on language, art making, and more-than-human interconnection, from our friends at the Future Ecologies podcast. Listen to more future ecologies at https://www.futureecologies.net/ ! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hey there, it's Nick.
I'm going to do something a bit different today and turn things over to one of my favorite recent podcast discoveries, future ecologies.
Future ecologies is one of those rare shows that challenges how we move through the world, but never in a way that feels didactic or glib.
It has a playfulness with ideas and an ease with irresolution that personally, I find very appealing.
And on top of all that, it's beautifully produced.
This is from their episode geopoietics.
Here's future ecologies co host Mendel Skulsky to explain more.
What you're about to hear comes from a gathering on Clahus, Tlamen and Hamalko territory, specifically Cortes island, in the spring of 2022.
It was a symposium of artists and scholars of all description assembled to reflect on, discuss, and share their practice, namely, that at an intersection referred to as geopoetics, the word poem comes to us from the greek poin, meaning to make or create, and which would also be borrowed into the word sympoesis.
Quoting from Donna haraway, sympoesis is a simple word.
It means making with nothing really makes itself.
Nothing is really autopoietic or self organizing, end quote.
In that spirit, what follows is not a perfectly condensed version of those events, nor is it attempting to be.
Instead, these many voices have been recontextualized and collaged from where I sit here as an uninvited guest on the unceded and shared ancestral territory of the Musqueam squamish and slay waututh peoples into a stream of consciousness on language, art making, and more than human interconnection.
The sound isn't perfect, and sometimes you can hear a baby in the room, but hey, that's life.
Here we go.
In the field of environmental education, the anthropomorphism, the charge of anthropomorphism is so sort of a dirty word.
It's considered a logical fallacy, so that it's, it's a formal critique.
So even the content of whatever comes is sort of rendered false.
So I wonder if you could just talk about your experience with that and anthropomorphizing the ocean, but also ecologizing the body and how you contend with that.