Call For Papers by Marios Falaris
Recent discussions on the Anthropocene have refocused attention on the ways in which our lives ar... more Recent discussions on the Anthropocene have refocused attention on the ways in which our lives are intimately and inextricably bound up with those of others, both human and nonhuman. These discussions have also given rise to a plethora of ethical questions concerning how we might move away from narratives of mastery and control of nature and engender broader feelings of a shared, more-than-human world. But what does it mean to inhabit a shared world with others beyond our own species? More specifically, what processes of attunement must occur for a feeling of shared experience to become possible? This conference seeks to explore the multi-sensory, embodied, affective, and intellectual alignments operative within human relationality with nonhuman others, and consider the ethical and political stakes brought about by more-than-human entanglements in a fragile world, increasingly seen to be at the edge of catastrophe. In examining the nature of being with others, we envision this conference both as a conceptual intervention and a methodological reflection. Working with a capacious view of the nonhuman—animals, plants, spirits, objects, landscapes, the atmosphere, etc.—we warmly invite proposals that examine the modes of being and working with that are operative within more-than-human networks of relationality.
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Call For Papers by Marios Falaris