# 26
The force of the conjunction “And”
The tree imposes the verb “to be” but the fabric of the rhizome is the conjunction, “and … and … and …” This conjunction carries enough force to shake and uproot the verb “to be”.
Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, A thousand plateaus. capitalism and schizophrenia, 1987The line of flight out of the dichotomous logic, of the Either / Or opens the possibility to think the AND : The AND between the struggle against racism and the struggle against Islamism, the AND between the struggle against Antisemitism and against racism, and against capitalism, and against sexism, and against ableism, and against pollution, and against heteronormativity, and, and, and … The rhizome finds its cohesion in the conjunction ‘and…and…and’ a logic of the AND.”
Niki Kubazcek, Transversale Insistenz. Oder Solidaritä als Vermögen, Verbindungen unter nicht Identem herzustellen 2021Invitations to contemplate these words and play with your thoughts
What if everything is entangled
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Gregory Bateson’s Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) [notes] “We live in a world that is only made of relationships” and these relationships are more important and fundamental than species as singular units. Bateson and systems theory develop our understanding of relations in order to get us outsi …
# 16
Reach out and make friends
Gregory Bateson’s Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) [notes] “We live in a world that is only made of relationships” and these relationships are more important and fundamental than species as singular units. Bateson and systems theory develop our understanding of relations in order to get us outside of singular unit thinking. Unlike Darwin, who proposed “the unit of survival was either the family line or the species,” for Bateson the “unit of survival is organism plus environment. We are learning by bitter experience that the organism which destroys its environment destroys itself.”
A multispecies approach acknowledges the entanglement for mutual survival.
T.J.Demos, The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change, 2021Invitations to contemplate these words and play with your thoughts
What if we tell a different history
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