Report during the symposium: RETHINKING ANIMISM AS TRANS-CORPOREAL EXISTENCES By re-conceptualizing the idea of animism and drawing on the notion of transcorporeality, other-than-human entities are agential and vital in the human to non-human political ecology. This new usage of animism emphasizes the connectivity, fluidity and relationality of entities. It is of fluid, relational, post-anthropocentric paradigms where…
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Bianca Baldi
Report during the symposium: SICOMORO CENTENARIO This talk will be about my research on clouds as an example of attentive rethinking of our surroundings and the resulting essayistic documentary called ‘Cloudscapes’. In this work, the cloud is viewed as a non-human actor in the Anthropocene whoseYou settle on my image a majestic sycamore-fig tree. Ficus sycomorus. Like…
Lisa Walder
Report during the symposium: Cloudscapes This talk will be about my research on clouds as an example of attentive rethinking of our surroundings and the resulting essayistic documentary called ‘Cloudscapes’. In this work, the cloud is viewed as a non-human actor in the Anthropocene whose agency has long outstripped the weather situation. ‘Cloudscapes’ explores moments where…
Madhuja Mukherjee
Keynote during the symposium: The Dogs, the City, and the Stars ‘7 hours; only 7 hours left’. The classic Bengali science fiction novel Lubdhak (2006), by Nabarun Bhattacharya, opens in this manner. Gradually it becomes clear that there is a plan to banish the street dogs. Random killings take place until a program is launched. The…