# 7

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!

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What if we tell a different history
What if “Nature” does not exist
What if we invent an ecosystemic economy
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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 …

Where does Europe begin and Where does Europe end

What could a non-anthropocentric view of Europe add to our understanding of its boundaries and borders? Borders are human-made. Political borders make no sense in a posthumanist world. Would this mean the end of Europe?

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