Ron Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA
Lorraine Schneider. ‘War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things.’ 1966
Realist Magic →
New open-access book from ecological philosopher, Timothy Morton
Garden in a bottle, anyone?
This miniature ecosystem has been thriving in an almost completely isolated state for more than forty years. It has been watered just once in that time.
The original single spiderwort plant has grown and multiplied, putting out seedlings. As it has access to light, it continues to photosynthesize. The water builds up on the inside of the bottle and then rains back down on the plants in a miniature version of the water cycle. As leaves die, they fall off and rot at the bottom producing the carbon dioxide and nutrients required for more plants to grow.
City as Software is the idea that a city is a malleable, writable system capable of being edited and changed by its citizens. Adam Greenfield wrote that seeing a city as software would allow “people a fundamentally new way to engage and co-author the environment they inhabit.”
Are we a plague? →
David Attenborough thinks so, but I’m over misanthropy in the environmental movement. It’s so counter-productive if what we want to do is foster new cultures of sustainability. It isn’t human beings per se that are the problem, but the skewed cultural and economic systems by which we live. Those systems can and must be changed.
- Tumblr friend: If you're confused then there may be no sense in it. Just another escape from reality and justifying oneself by hiding from reality.
- My reply: Try reading David Abram's "Becoming Animal". You'll see that the philosophy I'm talking about is the opposite of escaping from reality. It's about reconnecting our bodies with the ecologies that sustain us. Thinking and reflecting is not opposed to life, but is a fundamental part of living more fully.
Can anyone help familiarise me with the affinities and disjunctures between the respective empiricisms of Gilles Deleuze and Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
I’ve been inspired by Deleuze for years, but never really understood his dismissal of what he calls phenomenology’s “simple appeal to lived experience”. The breathtaking ecological writings of David Abram, though, are making me increasingly sympathetic towards Merleau-Ponty and the phenomenological project. So now I’m all confused again, but I guess that’s a sign of learning.
Grow Food Not Lawns
(Source: growtest.org, via whyhungerconnect)
We are the ones who are caged.
(Source: lah-mas-darks, via jeshumarquez)
A Permaculture Food Forest in Belgium
Video is in French. Click the ‘CC’ icon at bottom of player to turn on English subtitles.
