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Made of mud… how compost builds the world

My partner Rusten Hogness suggested compost instead of posthuman(ism) (a thought tradition that criticises the role of the human at the center), as well as humusities instead of humanities, and I jumped into that wormy pile. 

Human as humus has potential, if we could chop and shred human as Homo, the detumescing project of a self-making and planet-destroying CEO. Imagine a conference not on the Future of the Humanities in the Capitalist Restructuring University, but instead on the Power of the Humusities for a Habitable Multispecies Muddle!

Invitations to contemplate these words and play with your thoughts
  • What captured our attention
  • What if we tell a different history
  • What if “Nature” does not exist
  • What if we invent an ecosystemic economy
  • What do you think?
  • Where does Europe begin and Where does Europe end
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  • According to myths, Europa was named after an Asian princess. Europa was abducted by Zeus, who had transformed himself into a bull, while she was picking flowers with her friends on the beaches of Tyre, a city in modern-day Lebanon. The animal carried her from Asia across the sea to Crete, where it …
  • Giovanni Ambrosio. Ius Soli. Chapter one: waiting, passing, redemption. Soils: Tessuto non tessuto. 2018-

What if “Nature” does not exist

It seems to be contradictory to ask what if "nature" does not exist and simultaneously call humans humus. This requires an explanation: The proposition 'what if nature does not exist' refers to a concept of nature in which humans are distinct from mere nature, cultural beings control nature. The request for a truely "posthumanist" perspective, transforms the role of nature into an active part of the ecosystem we belong in. The question is, however, what kind of consequences do we need to draw from such a shift in perspective? How can we assure that the renaming is not just a matter of marketable rebranding?

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