Ecosomatic practices for living and dying on a damaged earth by Olive Bieringa

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Ecosomatic References

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Akomolafe, Bayo. https://www.bayoakomolafe.net/

Abrams, David. Spell of the Sensous,. Vintage Books, 1997. Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology, Vintage Books, 2011

Barad, Karen. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Duke University Press, 2007.

Barad, Karen. Troubling Time/s and ecologies of nothingness: re-turning, re-membering, and facing the incalculable. New Formations, 2017.

Bennet, Jane. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Duke University Press, 2010

Brentari, Carlo. Jakob Von Uexküll: The Discovery of the Umwelt between Biosemiotics and Theoretical Biology. Springer, 2015.

Brown, Adrienne Maree. Emergent Strategies. AK Press, 2017.

Cohen, Bonnie Bainbridge, Nelson, Lisa and Stark Smith, Nancy. Sensing, feeling, and action: The experiential anatomy of Body-Mind Centering®. Contact Editions, 2012.

Fancourt, Daisy. Art Cure: the Science of how Arts Transform our Health. Penguin, 2026.

Gumbs, Alexis Pauline. Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. AK Press, 2020.

Haraway, Donna J. Staying with the trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press, 2016.

Hathaway, Michael J.. What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make. Princeton University Press, 2022

Ingold, Tim. Being Alive. Routledge, 2011

Kimmerer, Robin. Braiding Sweetgrass; Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Milkweed Editions/Oregon State University Press Ltd, 2013.

Kimmerer, Robin. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural

History of Mosses. Oregon State University Press, 2003.

Machado de Oliveira, Vanessa. Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism. North Atlantic Books, 2021.

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Margulis, Lynne. Symbiotic Planet: A New Look At Evolution. Basic Books, 1998.

Merlin, Sheldrake. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures. Random House, 2020.

Micro-phenomenology

Morris, David. Merleau-Ponty’s Developmental Ontology. Northwestern University Press, 2018.

Naess, Arne. The Ecology of Wisdom: Writings by Arne Naess. Counterpoint, 2008.

Nuding, Elise. Approaching eco-somatics:A consideration of potential pitfalls and their implications. Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices, Volume 13 Numbers 1 & 2. Intellect Ltd Academic Reflection, 2021.

Neimanis, Astrida. Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology. Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

Neimanis, Astrida & Hamilton, Jennifer Mae. How to Weather

Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change, Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

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Tsing, Anna. The Mushroom at the End of the World. On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press, 2015.

Tsing, Anna (ed.) Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.

Varela, Francisco. Ethical Know-How. Stanford University Press, 1999.

Weber, Andreas. Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology. Chelsea Green, 2017.

Weber, Andreas. The Biology of Wonder. New Society Publishers, 2016.

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Becoming

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Tonight's class reminded me of this great film. You may have seen it. I love the heart beat orchestrating devt and propulsion - Rivka

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Mammal fetal development (dog, dolphin, elephant)

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How you can help save nature where you live

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Molecular Landscapes

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Symbiosis

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“a living arrangement of two different organisms in an association that can be either beneficial or unfavourable”, which “were frequently greeted with skepticism and even hostility”.

Holobiont

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+ Gaia theory

Fungi

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Restoring the watercycle to stop climate change

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"we are 'nature' defending itself" - isabelle fremeaux + jay jordan

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https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/e-flux-podcast/id1332021431?l=en&i=1000559843093

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Petra Kuppers: Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters (free online book, 2022)

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becoming: an exhibition based on a course with Camilla Nelson

Transreading Interspecies Empathy & Innovative Poetics

Uyra: The Rising Forest

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How fungi communicate: https://www.sci.news/biology/fungi-language-10718.html

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Sophie Strand Your body is an ancestor

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Scientists' recent discovery of a "new" part of the human body, the interstitium, is an invitation to think differently about our relationship with the world at large

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2022 documentary called To the End. It traces the creation of the Sunrise Movement—the US climate organization for people under 30, started in 2018—and their launch of the Green New Deal.

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Book: Sandtalk by Dr Tyson Yunkaporta

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Article: Rachel Liebert - What Could the White Body do For Decolonising Psychology?

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Although this is in a psychology journal, it takes a deeply somatic approach to this question which has much wider reach.

The Dark Mountain Project

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These were some of the main scientific critiques that evolutionary biologists mounted against Lovelock’s original articulation of the Gaia hypothesis in the 1970s and ’80s. Our planet is not composed of the cooperating members of a single species, nor even of a single biome—it’s a massive ensemble of all existing ecosystems, which are themselves intricate networks of the living and nonliving. Earth is not so much a superorganism as a metaecosystem. metaecosystem.

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We build non-lingusitic concepts through body; far and near, fast and slow, inside, underneath...the importance of play and affect

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Roundtable discussion featuring Robert Fagen, Joanna Gewertz Harris, Steve Paxton, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, and Daniel N. Stern

“On Being,” Ms. Macy said that a “dance with despair” was the central experience of her life — but that by not running away from grief, she had learned that the feeling could be transformed. “When we take it in our hands,” she said of grief, “when we can just be with it and keep breathing, then it turns. It turns to reveal its other face, and the other face of our pain for the world is our love for the world, our absolutely inseparable connectedness with all life.”

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They are great indicators of air quality, and of heavy metals in the environment; because they have no epidermis, they’re intimate with the world.

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An art/science collaboration on fungi, mycobiome, multispecies interdependence, and the ecological entanglement of the human body with planetary systems.

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Methanotrophs!

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“Globally, all of the methanotrophs on the planet are consuming many times the amount of methane that humans are releasing into the atmosphere,” said James Henriksen, an environmental microbiologist at Colorado State University.

The book is seen as a contribution to the "fungal turn" in arts and environmental humanities, which some critics argue can sometimes be a one-sided, albeit well-intentioned, allegorical, or anthropomorphic take on complex scientific topics.

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Animals in a bacterial world

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article from 2013: In the last two decades, the widespread application of genetic and genomic approaches has revealed a bacterial world astonishing in its ubiquity and diversity. This review examines how a growing knowledge of the vast range of animal–bacterial interactions, whether in shared ecosystems or intimate symbioses, is fundamentally altering our understanding of animal biology. Specifically, we highlight recent technological and intellectual advances that have changed our thinking about five questions: how have bacteria facilitated the origin and evolution of animals; how do animals and bacteria affect each other’s genomes; how does normal animal development depend on bacterial partners; how is homeostasis maintained between animals and their symbionts; and how can ecological approaches deepen our understanding of the multiple levels of animal–bacterial interaction. As answers to these fundamental questions emerge, all biologists will be challenged to broaden their appreciation of these interactions and to include investigations of the relationships between and among bacteria and their animal partners as we seek a better understanding of the natural world.

Emergence Magazine

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The Emerald: Currents and Trends Through a Mythic Lens

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Future Ecologies

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'We borrow our bodies from the Earth.' Peter Kindfield

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"All of the activities described in this book) support embodied learning. Broadly defined, embodied learning is learning that involves the body and senses, as well as the mind. Is there really any other kind? It is nonsensical that we’ve somehow accepted that an ideal context for learning is sitting in a chair, in a classroom, facing the front of the room, and listening to a teacher talk. This method of separating learning from sensing and moving arose from our cultural habit of separating everything from everything else."

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/827846/explorations-in-ecology-by-peter-kindfield-phd/

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