Poetics of Life and Death

What is being said when the wind blows through the leaves of a tree? What does it mean? Andreas and I both agreed that, whatever it is, it is of profound significance.

Drawing on indigenous cosmologies and the old image of the human as microcosm, Andreas suggests that humans are meant to serve life, to learn from older-than-human beings about how to contribute to the fecundity of ecological communities.

We go on to discuss the history of Western modernity, how the Enlightenment’s quest for freedom from political oppression also includes the fantasy of freedom from nature and even from death itself.

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