nathan oxley
Read the latest #FutureNatures newsletter:
https://futurenatures.substack.com/p/resistance-and-seeds
💥 Mines and resistance
🌱Open source seeds
🐺 Naming and unnaming
🐝 #POLLEN23 activities: plenaries and comic art
Naming, unnaming and commons -
https://futurenatures.org/naming-unnaming-and-commons/
A new piece for #FutureNatures where I think about Ursula Le Guin's story 'She Unnames Them' and other themes of naming and renaming in Le Guin's work. It's about the naming process involved in natural science, and how that differs from the way people name things in every day life. And it's about who has the power to name stuff and who might decide to unname and rename it.
There are some really nice new bits on the #futurenatures website if you're interested in #commoning & #commons, thinking beyond private ownership, and how people are putting imaginative worlds into practice
https://futurenatures.substack.com/p/dark-agoras-unsettling-land
https://futurenatures.substack.com/p/dark-agoras-unsettling-land
Here’s the full video of @jtroane speaking in Brighton about ‘Dark Agoras’ - spaces of dissident urban visions in Philadelphia, both sacred and profane, in relation to the histories of Black social life in the US. A really fascinating talk.
JT Roane - Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place (Brighton, UK)
💡 New #futurenatures piece:
How could land in England be reformed for the commons?
Great new post by my colleague Elise Wach that explores the different land reform proposals being put forward by social movements.
https://futurenatures.org/how-could-land-in-england-be-reformed-for-the-commons/
Reminder - big #futurenatures panel discussion tomorrow afternoon (Wednesday 7 December) with Amber Huff, Emilia Melville and Almendra Cremaschi talking about commons, crisis and development!
https://www.ids.ac.uk/events/crisis-development-and-ecologies-of-the-new-commons/
