<div dir="ltr">Yes to the 'rudeness' and category-defying ferality! One of the things that can be maddening to purists is the Interzone between the ruderal and indigenous, the hyper-ecologies that self assemble into novel ecosystems. I have fond memories of stumbling through a Superfund site next to the Willamette River near Portland and coming upon the indigenous Madrone and Cottonwood trees growing cheek to cheek with Paulownia and Robinia. Red-tailed hawks and western fence lizards took advantage of the thermal opportunities afforded by weedy expanses of abandoned pavement, while homeless folks made funeral pyres of salvaged electrical wire with which to burn off the insulation before selling it for recycling. Yet toxins were leaching into the water table and the fish were too contaminated for healthy consumption.<div><br></div><div>The ruderal may be empowering but not perhaps for those that ruined it. Yet the ruderal is playing out a longer game of earth repair that may or may not include us.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 10:57 PM WhiteFeather <<a href="mailto:whitefeather.hunter@gmail.com">whitefeather.hunter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello, empyrites! <br></div><div>I can't express how excited I am to see this topic of discussion come up here, and to learn from you in this shared space, about what magic and witchcraft mean from your different contexts and positions. My current PhD research is very much centred in practice-based (witch)craft, in relationship with biotechnology (I have a practical background in cellular and microbiology), and of course with a very keen eye on feminist witchcraft historians such as Federici, also Barbara Ehrenreich and Dierdre English before her, as well as favourite feminist technophile philosophers, such as Donna Haraway, and very (most?) importantly, other (bio)tech-witch practitioners. <br></div><div><br></div><div> I'm very much interested in 'troubling' scientific narratives and methodologies through practice and philosophy, where they historically and contemporaneously intersect with mammalian bodies/selves especially, but also expanding this to better reflect multiple senses of other-worldliness--including deviants, hybrids and more-than-mammals (for example, microbes essential to the nutrient uptake and growth of our plant foods/medicines as well as those that emerge, feeding on and reducing toxicity in spaces such as the 'ruderal'). <br></div><div><br></div><div>What a magnificent word ruderal is, for it contains the word, <i>rude</i>. <br></div><div><br></div><div>
Some of the most rude experiences I've had in the field have been with regards to confronting ideologies around ecosystems and “protected” (pristine/pure) areas, particularly where privileged systems of knowledge production influence policy that restricts, undermines and suppresses lived/embodied/anecdotal knowledges, when those knowledges run counter to capitalist imperatives. I can expand more on these experiences later where there is interest or opportunity. </div><div><br></div><div>So looking forward to reading everything,<br></div><span style="color:rgb(91,155,213)" lang="EN-US"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><span></span></span>
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