<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>Great to see everyone's lists. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Like many of you, I've really loved Escobar's recent book, <i>Designs for the Pluriverse</i>. I finished it at the end of the year -- very nourishing and very affirning. Over this winter I have been reading some science fiction, going back to Kim Stanley Robinson's <i>Mars Trilogy</i>, and read Arkady Martine's <i>A Memory Called Empire. </i>Also<i> Infinite Detail</i>. I have <i>Ministry of the Future</i> by KSR,<i> Black Leopard Red Wolf</i> by Marlon James, and <i>The Space Between Worlds</i> by Micaiah Johnson in the SF pile. SF is my way of resting a dreaming after a bout of hard work. It is very snowy and quiet here in Central NY, so a good dreamscape. <br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm also about to tackle <i>AI in the Wild: Sustainability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence</i> by Peter Dauvergne, and have <i>Fully Automated Luxury Communism</i> by Aaron Bastani right beneath it. Have also been eyeing the Reza Negarestani that I didn't get all the way through last summer, and thinking about returning to it. I'm wondering if folks have any recommendations for readings around AI and sustainability, AI and food forestry -- especially as it pertains to value and/or crypto-colonialism... I am always thinking about the commons and so Peter Linebaugh has been hopping piles and making its way into quotes and citations of late. Another pairing/ pile includes Nicole Starosielski's <i>The Undersea Network</i>, and <i>Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad</i> by Manu Karuka.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks Renate and Tim for spurring this exchange! And hope everyone is well and safe as we come up on the end of our first year of the pandemic.</div><div><br></div><div>M<br></div><div><br></div>PS: a bio: <i>My creative work is a kind of multispecies worlding — a phrase introduced
by Donna Haraway, who understands it to be the “patterning of possible
worlds,” a co-becoming that occurs through entanglements with other
species. I collaborate with humans, and the more-than-human,
across technologies and ecologies, to enact possible worlds — worlds
that generate abundance, presence and relationship — and in doing so,
antagonize proprietary regimes, colonial temporalities, and capitalist
forms of labor. Speculative fabulation, intervention, participatory
event, walking tour, experimental pedagogy, installation, and biological
processes articulate stages of my worlding processes. My collaborations include the Coven Intelligence Program, with efrén cruz
cortés and Suzanne Husky, a coven that uncovers revolutionary ecologies
between plants and machines; the Guerrilla Grafters, begun with Ian Pollock
and Tara Hui: who graft fruit bearing branches onto non-fruit bearing,
ornamental street trees in the urban environment, among others. I teach Digital Studio at Colgate University.</i><br><div><br>--<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(204,204,204)"><a href="http://beforebefore.net" target="_blank">beforebefore.net</a></span><br><div>--</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 6:58 PM Renate Ferro <<a href="mailto:rferro@cornell.edu">rferro@cornell.edu</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----------------------<br>
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