Soilogic Groundings (Towards Dirtier Philosophies of Creative Interchange)
Transdisciplinary image Conference
Linus Lancaster
Frederick Young
10.6084/m9.figshare.6104672.v1
https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Soilogic_Groundings_Towards_Dirtier_Philosophies_of_Creative_Interchange_/6104672
<p>This discussion will focus on<i> soils</i> as more than human
subjects who are both living entities and ‘lenses’ through which we may begin
to rethink some of the conventional parameters of ecology, communication, and
even the grounding of traditional Western ontologies on which these boundaries
have stood.<a>[1]</a>
Just as the very term “more than human” potentially exceeds the relegation of
both soilogic agents and animalities to subservient status, likewise this
discussion embarks from a more than humanist (“posthumanist”) position.<a>[2]</a>
As we attempt to look at living systems and ways of being in broader,
more expansive terms, it becomes possible to catch conceptual
glimpses of less hierarchical ontologies as understood by some more than Western
cultures. This presages dirty thinking.
My collaborators and I have also drawn inspiration from artistic,
theoretical, and political movements in the West that have sought to interrupt
the primacy of Eurocentric humanism in institutions and philosophical arenas.</p>
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<p><a>[1]</a> Ontologies refers here to what and how are living entities (beings)
more than to the larger phenomenological field of being (existence) as a whole.</p>
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<p><a>[2]</a> We use the term
"animalities" rather than "animals" in this discussion to
denote, as closely as we can imagine, the totality of animals, both animal
bodies and their conceptual role in various philosophical traditions.</p>
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2018-04-18 23:37:26
Art Practice
Soil Studies
Ecology
Posthumanism
Art
Design