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Looking forward to sharing some of @KimTallBear's #ISEA2020 keynote "A Sharpening of the Already Present: Five Analytical Vignettes on Apocalypse, Hope, Death, and Life" 🌱 🌅

The talk gets underway in five minutes! 🕕

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@KimTallBear is Assoc. Prof @UANativeStudies and is the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience & Environment.

She is the author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science (@UMinnPress 2013): upress.umn.edu/book-division/…

TallBear's talk this evening will expand on her research at @indigenous_sts on technoscience, new materialism and decolonial studies to explore an Indigenous analytical approach to understanding the Anthropocene.🌎

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It seems we're experiencing some technical difficulties—we'll update once the keynote has started. #MilieuXISEA

TallBear recently gave a talk entitled "Settler Relations are Property Relations" at the Reimagining the Human symposium @VU_LT

A recording of that talk is available here for anyone interested in her work⬇️

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We're in!

@KimTallBear is offering a vignette to the audience: "Life is death is life."

Remembering the passing of her great-grandmother, TallBear reflects on how death can be a life-giving force.

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@KimTallBear thinks b/w the theory surrounding death and the material experience of watching family members die.

The word "beliefs," she says, doesn't capture the material practices of living and dying together—the room, the breath.

"Both her life and her death were a gift"

@KimTallBear ends with reference to @JohanGaltung and asks how life and death are imbricated in empire:

"Who dies badly in order for the gluttonous to live too well? ... For the vulnerable to live, the gluttonous US empire must pass... Leave the living some peace."

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Responding to a question on the ethics of consumption, @KimTallBear says Indigenous worldviews ask that we look at our relations—to animals, plants, the land—beyond imposed hierarchies.

"We all need to eat and we're all potentially food"

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Rather than ask about the ethics of eating something, @KimTallBear suggests, we might instead ask about the conditions that make possible that consumption.

Which lives are being valued?

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Technical errors meant we could only catch the end of @KimTallBear's talk tonight, but #ISEA2020 organizers have assured folks that the keynote was recorded and will be accessible soon.

We'll share more glimpses of her talk when we're able to 🌫

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In the meantime: join us in the morning as we live-tweet an #ISEA2020 keynote by Jennifer Gabrys, Chair in Media, Culture and Environment at @CamSociology!

Dr. Gabrys will present "From Planetary Sensing to Becoming Planetary" tomorrow at 7 am. 🌍

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