Multispecies learning with the Amazon forest: think with ant-gardens
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This text germinates from encounters, crossings and uneasiness with the Amazon. Write with the forest: let yourself be affected by astonishment and enchantment. We sought to think of the forest as a multispecies sympoietic collective, whose entangled relationships create and sustain worlds. The field diary that is interbraided with the text experiments with and cultivates attention to these entangled worlds without reducing their complexity. Questions are raised about the encounter with an Ant Garden: a living composition that arises from mutualistic relationships between ants and plants. Multispecies relationships write complex, intricate stories situated in space-time. Learning from storytelling, with forests as thinking partners, perhaps helps us unpredict the end of the world.
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