[-empyre-] invasive species

[Elaine Gan]

such an important conversation. thanks!

I work with plants and fungi. Which particular species, spores, seeds
matters a lot. Regardless of what names “we” (moderns, elites) choose,
things act and react, travel, etc. So if one really needs to spread spores
to make symbolic statements, one might be meticulous and careful about
which spores, which material effects. Fungal blasts, blights destroy
fields, forests, plantations, etc. Others rebuild them. Mycorrhizals are
not necessarily good. Saprobes are not necessarily bad. We know little
about them. but we can at least try to be specific about what to use.

I hope that as interdisciplinary artists-scientists, we might try to figure
out small, grounded ways of really listening to these materialities anew,
to figure out how they act in the world —instead of assuming that these are
already known, or that they are ours to play with.

Elaine

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 5:50 AM John Jordan <artactivism at gn.apc.org> wrote:

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> This article has some interesting sections about the Nazi mix of invasive
> species discourse and its policies of purity
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> *Confronting introduced species: a form of xenophobia ?*
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> http://fwf.ag.utk.edu/mgray/wfs560/biological_invasions.pdf
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> On 13 Jun 2018, at 08:58, Brian Holmes <bhcontinentaldrift at gmail.com>
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> Greets John! Greets Shu Lea!
> Invasive species is a terrible term, for sure, but zebra and quagga
> mussels have turned Lake Michigan a beautiful pure almost Aryan blue, and
> they've basically wiped out almost all other life in the lake... They were
> brought in the bilge water of freighters coming from the Black Sea, as
> quite a few others have been; and though it would be relatively easy to
> transfer the cargo of these ships to trains before they ever get to the
> Great Lakes, nothing is done, apparently because the US and Canada are so
> proud of engineering the locks of St Lawrence Seaway. Or maybe it's just
> because the state only thinks in terms of money, production and trade, and
> not of beings and balances and histories and futures. I guess the main
> thing is to be aware of the consequences of what one does, and of what
> powerful forces in out societies do, and to struggle not for purity or even
> Nature, but for more vital and viable tomorrows all around.
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> Thanks to everyone for this thread and the whole series, it's beautiful,
> Brian
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> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 8:03 PM, Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com> wrote:
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>> I think you're referring to Lorenz possibly? But the answer begs the
>> question in a sense; I'd rather start from an in-depth knowledge of a
>> landscape/biome, rather than aryan purity.
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>> - Alan
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>> On Tue, 12 Jun 2018, John Jordan wrote:
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