David Abram and Richard Powers
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
- Animate Earth Dialogs - Episode 01 - Richard Powers
Authors David Abram and Richard Powers speak about Richard's award winning novel The Overstory and what it means to decenter the human.
This Podcast is the first in the Animate Earth Dialogs; a series of conversations between David Abram and various curious human creatures, each of them powerfully engaged with transforming and deepening our connection with the more-than-Human Earth.
Intro Cuckoo recording is from "Wake Up Calls" by Cosmo Sheldrake.
cosmosheldrake.bandcamp.com/
I just found Abrams recently via his book Spell of Sensuous and I am in Awe, not because it is something new for me but because is something I was sensing since I was a child but I could not explain. I could see that the more I learned to speak with my fellow humans,less magical my world became. I still remember one day maybe with 5 years old when I was telling a friend that a platic puppet I had was actualy alive and he use to talk with me. In that moment we both looked to the puppet and it moved and talked, I was as astonished as him by observing it. Was mere seconds but was like magical.
Thank you for speaking to us.
A huge thank you to David for the closing remarks around the term "Anthropocene", especially the words "We broke it, we own it, it's up to us to manage this". That seems to be the attitude of so many people who genuinely care about life on Earth and really want to help, but haven't spotted the danger of falling back into the exact same ignorant arrogance that is responsible for all the horrors. If we allow ourselves to be distracted by supposed "solutions" coming from within the unchanged civilized consciousness we will never even try to do the one thing that is needed, which is to take on the challenge of breaking out of our cultural conditioning and opening ourselves to the greater intelligence of the Earth and the other beings all around us.
Love the bit about the danger of metaphor near the end. That's an unimaginably useful and loving insight
A magnificent towering being of a book! Thank you Richard and David for such an intimate and delightful talk. David, both of your books are so utterly gorgeous. My life has changed dramatically through yours and Richard's books ..... Thank you ... xxx
I like the term humilicene rather than anthropocene -- as the waking up to all that we got wrong in our anthropocentric view of life on this planet -- as a new beginning by proceeding with humility in a process of discovery to understand what our blind spots have hidden from us. Thank you for this.
Wonderful to see two beautiful minds appreciating each other and the intelligence of all life.
Profoundly thought provoking discussion, Thank you. Words can be strange attractors. Humelecene (hope the spelling is ok) is a beautiful word. Perhaps the Ecozoic Era 🌱 is another contender 🙂
Thank you so much !!!!
This was really powerful and I really appreciate what both of you bring to the world, if not just a peculiar receptivity to the beauty beyond you.
This is great! Thank you....🤙
So inspiring.
The term Anthropocene suggests an indictment of all people. We, the people of these developed and... developing modern cultures, do not represent all those other myriad humans. Especially those whose places "we" appropriated and degraded. We are not Humanity!
I am very grateful to you. Your eloquence and knowledge ring true.
Thanks for this, David! Regarding the Anthropocene, are you familiar with Donna Harroway's definition of this epoch as the "Chthulucene"? : wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Chthulucene. Her proposed definition seems to take into account the misdirection of human enterprise and seat it in a context that holds the meaning of our being humus/earth beings.
Lovely but the seats are too hierarchical...