[-empyre-] RUDERAL WITCHCRAFT

[WhiteFeather]

Hello, empyrites!
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.

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').

What a magnificent word ruderal is, for it contains the word, *rude*.

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.

So looking forward to reading everything,
WhiteFeather Hunter
:::she/her:::
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