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march: entanglement

a connective syllabus

entangled life by merlin sheldrake

book on fungi and their relationships with plants, animals, and bacteria. sheldrake asks and answers questions about how fungi behave, how they evolved, how they influence our culture, and how they might continue innovating our world. see also the mushroom hour podcast (recommended by @astranemus :))

“queer theory for lichens” by david griffiths

expands on a famous paper on lichens by applying the notion of composite organisms (like a lichen, consisting of an alga and a fungus) to human relationships and sexuality.

selections from poetics of relation by édouard glissant

nine essays from carribean writer édouard glissant's work of postcolonial critical theory poetics of relation. its main subject is how languages and cultures exist in dynamic relationship, focusing especially on multilingualism, creolization, and the imagining of the other.

“sympoiesis” by donna j. haraway

from staying with the trouble, a book proposing new ways of thinking about our current epoch. haraway explores sympoesis, a word meaning "making with," first in the context of bacterial/animal evolution and then using "science art worldings" as models: rehabilitative collaborations between artists, scientists, and activists.

“the artist as ecologist” by gene youngblood

short article on how globalization and the internet have affected many artists' aims to explore relationships rather than forms or structures.

african polyrhythms by jade ping

spotify playlist featuring 11 hours of polyrhythmic (2+ simultaneous rhythm structures) music from africa. spotify users have made polyrhythm playlists in many other genres as well, including polyrhythms in club music by brandt brauer frick, polyrhythmic funk by mikeohope, and polyrhythms (mostly indie/rock) by joshlikessquash.

“descartes was wrong” by abeba birhane

cognitive science article that describes descartes' notion of cogito or self vs. world in contrast to relation-ortiented philosophies such as ubuntu. traces the impact of cartesian thought on the field of psychology and some alternatives for thinking about the self.

“entanglement” from invisibilia

podcast interview with a mirror-touch synesthete, who physically feels sensory experiences as she observes others having them. another good account of mirror-touch synesthesia is the essay "becoming others" from a woman looking at men looking at women by siri hustvedt.

“poem number two on bell’s theorem, or the new physicality of long distance love” by june jordan

poem by the american poet june jordan. her title references a critical theory in the field of quantum entanglement (i.e. entangled particles will display identical states even across great distances).