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@brightabyss

12 Jul

Here’s my thesis: so many established, secure and privileged folks have an aversion to “radical” politics and discourse, where civil obedience is challenged or disagreement and conflict is intense, because *we* outsource genuine contestation to the military.

Care to discuss?

Which a to say, the desire and normative demand to not be adversarial, or to maintain civility and polite discourse, even with things that determine other people’s lives and dignity, is afforded by having cops and military use force to maintain established relations of power.

And it is this established system and culture of de-intensified political exchange — where agents are automatically expected to behave in a way that move towards consensus and peaceful co-existence — that effectively erases important and crucial world-making or remaking concerns.

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@brightabyss

15 May

I reject the premise that the current global mess we are all in is based solely on “the stories we tell.” These systems (in both their pathological and regenerative forms) are fundamentally relational. This means also material & energetic. Relations are never solely about ideas.

Relations of economic production. Relations of social reproduction. There are systemic and structural relations between bodies, plants, microbes, polities, climate, tools, animals, militaries, institutions, rivers, cops, etc., that generate the very conditions of life.

So if we want to improve the conditions for living we need to do more that just talk, or express, or weave new narratives. We need to forge new relations, “right relations” (as some indigenous folk put it). We need to renegotiate our arrangements with each other and ecology.

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@brightabyss

15 May

“At its core, #bioregionalism aims to address the inequitable distribution of resources and the disproportionate strain that current economic models places on natural environments and local people.”
earth.org/bioregionalism/

“American environmental writer Peter Berg popularised the ideology, emphasising a social structure where community ties were strengthened, awareness of natural resources enhanced and dedication to environmental conservation imprinted upon the public.”

“In the bioregional view, such a society could be achieved by grouping populations in accordance to bioregions. Ecologically speaking, a bioregion is a specific geographic area that is distinct from others by the characteristics of its natural environment.”

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@brightabyss

13 May

https://twitter.com/DrDCWahl/status/1392789928845664257

In a degrading biosphere, community viability while depend on how well we can adapt to regional affordances and flows. Watersheds, healthy soil, forests, waste management - the matrix of possibility for reproducing community. #patchwork

https://twitter.com/DrDCWahl/status/1392789928845664257

It begins with relocalization: source everything locally (consume less), become a food producer, or work with one to create relationships; hire and value tradespersons, and the community of practitioners that keep our lives functioning; and cultivate mutual aid. Weave community.

Localization is necessary but not sufficient.

There is also a need to be involved in the politics of regional watershed & land management. Not everyone can do everything, of course, but be aware of how non-local actors are trying to control or extract vital materials regionally

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@brightabyss

4 Mar

"The back loop is the time of the ‘Long Now,’ when each of us must become aware that he or she [or they] is a participant." (C. S. Holling, 2004, p. 5)

"[T]o inhabit the back loop can mean to belong to it, to have one’s own place within it, to be familiar, comfortable, & involved with it, rather than fighting against or living in fear of it. A habitual, everyday act of free creation & building: a peace within shifting terrain."

"Faced with the unfeasibility of the modern ‘technosphere’ and attendant infrastructures that prop up a highly variegated and unequal modern life, humans today need to ask how else might we feed ourselves, obtain clean drinking water, protect ourselves from the elements?"

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@brightabyss

2 Mar

"What we have to say matters less than what we have learned in thinking with the Indigenous people and their knowledge forms." ppesydney.net/how-to-write-a…

"For non-Indigenous scholars, there is a constant need to be alert to the possibilities of reproducing colonial power structures and epistemic frameworks while engaged in knowledge production."

"The only way out of this conundrum is to constantly learn from Indigenous voices and epistemologies and be sensitive to structural inequities and epistemic injustices that have marred the academe."

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