--empyre- soft-skinned space--Jo, this is absolutely fascinating work, also a very suggestive experiment.
You are using techniques one might use trying to communicate with extra
terrestrials, understanding a totally different kind of code. I suppose in
the colonizers'
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Yi, thank you for your post. I am glad I won't be the only person
pushing that point of view. Exactly as you say, part of the purpose of
exploration needs to be a way of understanding the other, truly other, in
its own terms. Such an
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Murat, We're all pushing for a point of view that challenges the hegemony
of liberal humanism. I certainly think a turn to the nonhuman is an
excellent approach. Methodologically it's a major intervention. It raises a
series of important
--empyre- soft-skinned space--
Wow! What a wonderful discussion to find.
I am also sorry to be joining in so late.
Patrick and Murat - your discussion about the world beyond humans is one I love
and fear thinking about.
Projects like these are such great tools for
--empyre- soft-skinned space--
thank you all for an interesting start to a discussion
(on plant / art) that took me by surprise...
and as I am catching up on listening, to plants (not thinking of them at all as
extraterrerestial
not even in metaphor but as part and
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Murat, thank you for your questions. I'm glad to share my work with
empyre participants and appreciate the support of my project.
In response to a) The music the leaves play, the sounds they make, are
they programmed by you? Could you
--empyre- soft-skinned space--But I wonder, too, if we can truly understand the other, in its own terms,
as you suggest, and whether our desire to do so is not simply a symptom of
our own humanity. As you say, we are bound by our own humanity, and the
result will remain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Happy June, everyone! Thanks for starting off the discussion. My
apologies for joining later in the week. I started corresponding yesterday
with Murat on another thread, I'm now sharing on this thread.
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