This Connection of Everyone with Lungs

Spahr, Juliana

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“…What we are calling ‘Patchwork ontologies’, which we see as a variation and development upon Resilience, are also increasingly prevalent in debates about the Anthropocene. These approaches characterise the work of many scholars, experimental artists, designers, and activists today engaged with debates about the Anthropocene (Bird Rose, 2017; Daou and Pérez-Ramos, 2016; Glissant, 1997; Hayward, 2012; Roberts and Stephens, 2017; Spahr, 2005; Tsing, 2015; Watts, 2018). They similarly draw upon the powers of islands, foregrounding ontological tropes of relational entanglement and feedback effects.…”

Section: Relational Ontologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Anthropocene islands: There are only islands after the end of the world

Chandler

Pugh

2021

Dialogues in Human Geography

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Many Anthropocene scholars provide us with the key take home message that they are writing ‘after the end of the world’. Not because they are writing about apocalypse, but because they are engaging the Anthropocene after the profound crisis of faith in Western modernity which has swept across academia in recent decades. Here the dominant problematic of contemporary Anthropocene thinking has rapidly turned away from modernity’s human/nature divide to that of ‘relational entanglements’. Thus, Anthropocene scholarship is taking a particular interest in geographical forms and cultures which are held to bring this problematic to the fore for more intensive interrogation. In this article, we examine how the figure of the island as a liminal and transgressive space has facilitated Anthropocene thinking, working with and upon island forms and imaginations to develop alternatives to hegemonic, modern, ‘mainland’, or ‘one world’ thinking. Thus, whilst islands, under modern frameworks of reasoning, were reductively understood as isolated, backward, dependent, vulnerable, and in need of saving by others, the island is being productively re-thought in and for more recent Anthropocene thinking. We explain how islands have shifted from the margins in a number of international debates, becoming key sites for understanding relational entanglements, enabling alternative forms of thought and practice in the Anthropocene.

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Section: Relational Ontologymentioning

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Anthropocene islands: There are only islands after the end of the world

Chandler

Pugh

2021

Dialogues in Human Geography

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“…We highlight the importance of working and thinking with islands for the development of Patchwork approaches via a wide range of examples, examined in Chapter 3. These include, among many others, Anna Tsing's (2015) engagements with Japanese islanders' practices; Deborah Bird Rose's (2017a; work with the Aborigines of Australia; Phil Hayward's (2012b) with Haida Gwaii; Daniel Daou and Pablo Pérez-Ramos' (2016) with island thinking in contemporary design; Mimi Sheller's (2020) with local Caribbean island practices; Brian Russell Roberts and Michelle Stephens' (2017) with the 'anti-explorer' method; Teresia Teaiwa's (2007) islanding as a 'verb'; Juliana Spahr's (2005) poetry about Hawai'i; and Laura Watts' (2018) engagements with Orkney islanders. Our argument throughout is that it matters that authors choose to engage and draw heavily upon islands and islanders.…”

Section: Relational Ontologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Chapter 3 turns to explore what we call 'Patchwork ontologies' , which we draw out as a characteristic of the work of many scholars, experimental artists, designers and activists engaged with debates about the Anthropocene and who work with islands (examples include, among others, Spahr, 2005;Teaiwa, 2007;Hayward, 2012a;2012b;Daou and Pérez-Ramos, 2016;Yountae, 2016;Tsing, 2015;Roberts and Stephens, 2017;Bird Rose, 2017a;Wetlands Wanderers, 2018;Watts, 2018;Sheller, 2020). As Craig Santos Perez (forthcoming) saliently notes, islands 'have received unprecedented attention' in recent years, not only in mainstream policymaking and Resilience debates, but also in the work of many high-profile critical theorists, from Donna Haraway (Hadfield and Haraway, 2019) to Anna Tsing (2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This experimental set of infinite openings contrasts with the use of relational ontology at the other end of the ontological continuum, of Resilience, which tends to reify the world and suborn us to it within bounded self-regulating systems. The final section of the chapter turns to how, for many contemporary Anthropocene thinkers, this process of world-making, frequently emerging from engaging and working with islands, is generative for an ethos or duty of care (Spahr, 2005;Bird Rose, 2017a;Wetlands Wanderers, 2018 There is no difference between shell strands and a matrilineage, between a man and a bamboo pole, between a yam and spirit. The one 'is' the other, insofar as they equally evoke the perception of relations.…”

Section: Patchwork: the Ontology Of The World Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds

Pugh¹,

Chandler

2021

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The island has become a key figure of the Anthropocene – an epoch in which human entanglements with nature come increasingly to the fore. For a long time, islands were romanticised or marginalised, seen as lacking modernity’s capacities for progress, vulnerable to the effects of catastrophic climate change and the afterlives of empire and coloniality. Today, however, the island is increasingly important for both policy-oriented and critical imaginaries that seek, more positively, to draw upon the island’s liminal and disruptive capacities, especially the relational entanglements and sensitivities its peoples and modes of life are said to exhibit. Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds explores the significant and widespread shift to working with islands for the generation of new or alternative approaches to knowledge, critique and policy practices. It explains how contemporary Anthropocene thinking takes a particular interest in islands as ‘entangled worlds’, which break down the human/nature divide of modernity and enable the generation of new or alternative approaches to ways of being (ontology) and knowing (epistemology). The book draws out core analytics which have risen to prominence (Resilience, Patchworks, Correlation and Storiation) as contemporary policy makers, scholars, critical theorists, artists, poets and activists work with islands to move beyond the constraints of modern approaches. In doing so, it argues that engaging with islands has become increasingly important for the generation of some of the core frameworks of contemporary thinking and concludes with a new critical agenda for the Anthropocene.

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“…As a way of getting at what it means to be both together and not necessarily belonging to one another, Berlant discusses a poem by US poet Juliana Spahr (2005), The connection of everyone with lungs. It was written in New York City in the aftermath of 9/11, where all bodies still alive in its wake are described as breathing in the spaces between what is leftbetween hands, rooms, buildings, cities... A simple reading of the poem is one of togetherness-whether corporate banker or street cleaner-everyone in New York was breathing in the same residue of the disaster.…”

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Postcards from the Underground

Neimanis

Phillips²

2019

JPP

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This article draws lessons from a walkshop organised by the authors to Lithgow, NSW, where participants walked through a park dedicated to former coal-based infrastructures to arrive at the Lithgow mining museum. The aim of the walkshop was to better understand the tensions around groundwater and extraction in Australia. This article focuses on two key elements of the walkshop: (1) First, they interrogate an attempt to engage bodily with an elemental phenomenon—groundwater—that is for the most part inaccessible to human experience. The authors thus draw on the practice of posthuman phenomenology (Neimanis) to explain how bodily attunement to our own wateriness, alongside the “proxy stories” of arts and sciences expertise, can aid in bringing groundwater into lived experience. (2) Second, they ask how walkshopping—as a coming together—can nonetheless hold onto the ambivalences, tensions, and glitches that are part of sharing space in the face of fraught issues such as mining. Here, the authors turn to Lauren Berlant’s recent writing on the commons. They suggest that their walkshop was what Berlant would call ‘training’ in living with the awkward and complicit relations of being in common.

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This Connection of Everyone with Lungs

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