>>> APC opened a #Mastodon account on the mastodon.social server in 2017.
It took us a while to really integrate Mastodon into our #Fediverse and #Pluriverse mindsets.
A few days ago, we tooted for the thousandth time. To mark this milestone, here are a few thoughts:
‘We cannot simply dust off old formulas to repeat; we need take the time necessary to invent a new strategy and new organizational forms adequate to the current conjuncture.’
Michael Hardt calls for a radical reinvention of political strategy in his contribution to Berliner Gazette’s Pluriverse of Peace series:
Check this out: https://fredvanamstel.com/visual-overview
Also the excellent Pluriverse Commoning Design slide deck. https://fredvanamstel.com/tools/commoning-design-a-pluriversal-slide-deck
Review: Plural values of nature help to understand contested pathways to sustainability. https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(24)00146-5
Australia's semantic struggles over a "one and only" reality or a pluriverse?
From the 'heart of darkness' to the “sanitised” articles of sub/urban place names.
"Some (Wikipedia) editors told us they felt it was their responsibility to include First Nations’ perspectives, even though they met with heavy resistance. One, Lucas, had repeatedly tried to include First Nations place names, often unsuccessfully. He no longer edits Wikipedia. “I just ran out of energy for it”...One or two editors “were going around removing Aboriginal place names from all the articles about Australia and Australian places”.
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https://theconversation.com/we-analysed-35-000-wikipedia-entries-about-australian-places-some-sanitised-history-others-privileged-fiction-over-reality-241364
#wikipedia #SettlerSociety #Australia #SocialImaginary #ImaginedCommunity #fiction #violence #FirstNations #TruthTelling #naming #IndigenousKnowledge #pluriverse #EditWars #WorldMaking #EpistemicInjustice #language #framing #worldviews #AI
@pettter @ChrisMayLA6 I might add that degrowth is in large parts from Europe for the global north and that it is also about creating space for other development models in the sense of the #pluriverse and #tapestryofalternatives. No more cookie cutter 'development paradigms' based on #extractivism and #externalisation, rather reparations, loss and damage funds and technology transfer. That might make it attractive.
for a course I'm taking our homework reading is this book chapter which is very good
Imagining higher education as infrastructures of care
https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0363/ch4.xhtml
#academia #pluriverse
In this soothing #podcast episode, #PostGrowth Fellow, Wangũi wa Kamonji, explores the journey from coloniality to regeneration, drawing on Afrikan Indigenous knowledge, Earth wisdom, and ancestral guidance.
She introduces us to the "four roots” framework of healing, inviting us to embody the #pluriverse — “a world where many worlds fit.”
Listen and/or follow along with the full transcript: https://medium.com/postgrowth/embodied-pathways-to-the-pluriverse-transitions-from-coloniality-to-regeneration-48abfb039b18?source=friends_link&sk=9e42e15896279f1843d1aa0081020231
Goodbye universe - Plurality, evolution, legacy
https://write.as/papers/goodbye-universe-plurality-evolution-legacy
I've been thinking about pluriversal #design a lot recently for a project and how a major factor in it is a social one.
The question of 'how' is often the missing piece in #pluriversalDesign.
How can communities exist autonomously AND interdependently?
This part relies on open communication.
#bellHooks concept of mutuality might be an idea that could help here.
Writing a paper a bit on this now... more to come!
Important thread happening on Twitter right now — screenshot below. This includes many things I've been wanting to talk about and have been top of mind.
Link:
https://twitter.com/moyensdebord/status/1695788611583521142
Plenary 2 - Giorgos Kallis finally introduces the concept of the #pluriverse and uses the #South concept applied to Southern Europe (I have really a lot to say about it but in another post!)
> the “abstract reasoning” account of knowledge leaves out of the picture a hugely important feature of knowledge production that design thinking does not: the fact that creation is always emergent, in the two registers of emergence: self-organized and other-organized, the latter qualifier meaning that the scholar/designer also lays down elements and makes decisions that enable the self-organizing dynamic to take off and to its thing
- Arturo Escobar
#pluriverse
'a workd where many worlds can co-exist'
#EXALTPodcast #exalt #Pluriverse
FLASHBACK - Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes - Exploring the Pluriverse
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/pod/show/exalt-initiative/episodes/Srgio-Sauer---How-have-land-struggles-shaped-social-conflicts-and-extractivism-in-Brazil-e1lpud1
'What is undeveloped in our western conscience is the idea of plural history, the idea of a non-homogenous modernity, irregular, non-linear. In short, history is much more complicated than we would like it to be, and modernity much more heterogeneous. The questione meridionale is a typical example of the complex nature of history.'
Thought Ritual: An Indigenous Data Analysis Method for Research
Tyson Yunkaporta and Donna Moodie
#research #pluriverse #INDIGENOUS
de la Cadena's Earth Beings is now open access
https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/142/Earth-BeingsEcologies-of-Practice-across-Andean
Introducing my good self to the fedi
An overdue #introduction (thanks for the prompt when I switched instances @aussocialadmin )
My name is Scott and I live in Sydney (on Wangal Country in the Inner West). My pronouns are he / him.
I was born and raised in Canada (Alberta, even), and have lived in some great places around the world (Montreal, NYC, Vermont, rural Kenya). Being a Canadian man of a certain age, yes, I play hockey. Even in Australia.
I've been very (not extremely) online since the 90s. First it was rec.music.phish, then fark.com, then the Big Tech Socials.
I strive to behave with compassion and to be more kind than nice. But I also shitpost from time to time because internet.
I'm interested in lots of things and barely maintain a blurred boundary between personal and professional. See hashtags below or on my profile for a more specific list, but I think it's generally encompassed by the concept of #interbeing which I understand as being coined by Thich Nhat Hanh and drawn from Vietnamese and older Buddhist concepts.
Hashtags ftw: #anthropology #anarchism #buddhism #collaboration #collectiveImprovisation #complexity #complexSystems #conviviality #culture #decolonisation #design #designResearch #engagedAnthropology #engagedBuddhism #engagedDesign #ethnography #foresight #futures #hockey #improvisation #JustTransition #music #pluriverse #politicalEcology #protopia #serviceDesign #strategicDesign #systemsTheory #systemsThinking #speculativeEverything