__NOPUBLISH__ Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab - composer, students, everyday methods - 
http://multispeciesworldbuilding.com/
Deep hanging out. Long term relations of slowly getting to know a particular organism or sight.
Multispecies world building - life commitment - to lived social relations

messy materialities 

Lived social relations - practices 

http://multispeciesworldbuilding.com/

How do we enact multispecies worlds? Field Recording, Compsed, Found on the internet, archival sounds - a whole bunch of sources.

mixing field recordings, compositions, found sounds, archived sounds

Listening in on organic and machinic ensembles

strawberries, storms, (primates?) toxic dumps, urban wetlands and plantations

that live on anthropogenic landscapes always learning 

no one way or grand solution 

podcast as the best vehicle to engage with these experiences 

Julie Guthman - on strawberries in California
problems with light and diseases
blight

Fumegation became an easy fix for the strawberry industry, you can then neglect what is causing soil issues

Pathogens - that appear when bromide phased out - 

plants, soil, climate different part of the industry production.. human and non-human actors at play

fragile not fleeting
fragile assemblage

things are locked intogether.. 

city built around water.. histories of water... framing struggles... 

communities who have been targeted

connecting --> fighting the struggle

plastisizers - materially different important differences... 

produce culture
disposability and longevity

trained to think of plastic as ephemeral

 locked in relations.. .. shared histories.. .

Feminism justice oriented approach.. project embedded qualities of things 

value -- revalue our relations to other beings.. 

rethink our notions of kin and kinship structures through feminism and queer theory

Elizabeth Henaff, Computational biologist on bacteria and Gowanus Canal
the sludge.. under 5-20ft of water.... big news is there are microorganisms/microbiomes

How are they able to survive in such a toxic environment?

Impossible to engineer in the lab - rich environment with a precious ecosystem that should be adknowledged and valued as such

thinkingn through sound and working with compositions of different voices. 

2. text and image -- rice temporalities

placing seeds or seedlings, seeding rice fields so that the cultive might grown and flourish, is an act of making a claim to better days to come. Noone plants a seed without an expectation of a harvest. And something that tells them what they will be able to harvest. So what counts as a better future? 

For plantation owners Better tends (for big companies) to mean yield
For farmers better means relations with land

what counts for otherwises.. 

many past cycles of coordination, adaptation in order to survive different futures
each cultivar is dependent on its particular ensemble of relations
which is the cultivar / cultivated, figure ground, subject object, farmer farmed

Planting as a verbal figure for thought – processual rather than grammatically fixed, allowing for a shifting interplay between subject/object, figure/ground, human/machine, cultivator/cultivated

practices of multispecies relations : planting by hand, air, drill, robotic seeders : different temporalities

if they are seeds or data 

cult i var s - and the kinds of relaitons.. 

seriality of planting to harvest, variations eliminated, however rice plant live in the world differently / material assemblages

conversation between wet and dry soils

no particular one ontology for rice
rice as data / rice temporalities : genome sequencing, data that drives climate models
crop calanders
frozen seeds in a seed vault in svalbard
 not show indigenous varieties as the past, and modern varieties as the future - they are all right now and are all co-temporality 

 -- getting rid of these 
racialised discourse around agriculture where peasants are past and agrotech is future - all are contemporary

ontological cinema
chestnut tree - same as described in richard powers' overstory?
parsons nursery


collaboration as method has become important
as an academic, most of the time it is about showing individual scholarship
while process is deeply collaborative
individual agency, human imaginaries, being able to see that trees communicate, fungi have networks > such inquiries are too much for one person
Need to push beyond the human imaginary..
commitment to seeking alternatives to ecological crises / pragmatic work

how do we pay attention to how our world is constantly being made and unmade
we cannot just keep coming up with solutions
sometimes it might just be a good idea to stop and listen

how fungi disrupt value or desire for prediction - 
local-global does not make sense when thinking of historical shifts
globalisation (colonialism / neoliberalism) did a lot but there are other than what industry (impulses?) than wanted to do
for instance introduction of pesticides led to emergence of bacteria, fungi in response: case rice
rice fungi and bacteria are driving / changing how we think of agency, productivity
idea of modernity as acceleration, perhaps it is insects / bacteria that are much faster

scale in social, data, natural sciences
big push to big data
for commercial agro everything has to be scalable
dangerous to pursue 
instead if we pay attention to living with
bird migration undoing aruments of local-global







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