Kilpisjärvi, 30th of March 2016
_Reading The materiality of duration ; Between ice time and water time
by Natalie S. Loveless in Performance Research Vol.18 On ice (Dec. 2015)
(excerpts)
_ (…) as what feminist philosopher Donna Haraway might call a ‘modest
witness’ in the performances pictured above, operates as an invitation
into a differently oriented attentiveness that has implications for how
we do our ecological thinking – whether those ecologies be planetary or
domestic (Haraway 1997)
_ (…) suggest the materiality of duration as a central agent in the
micro- politics of ecological transformation. As Maria Puig de la
Bellacasa reminds us in her ‘Matters of care in technoscience:
Assembling neglected things’, not only does it take time to care,
but time needs care (Puig de la Bellacasa 2011)
_ (…) To return to Barad’s feminist new materialist imperative, to
orient oneself in an ecological and anti- anthropocentric manner is not
to de-specify the human, but, rather, to reposition the human. This reposi-
tioning encourages us to inhabit different questions that produce
different
ethics – ones not organized around human survival but what
Bastian, drawing on Donna Haraway, refers to as “multi-species”
flourishing (Haraway 2007: 90)
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