Life Lived Along Lines | Cracks in the Universe, Grey & Dark Matter and other Squiggly Networks

22 Mar

Written By Bethany Kohrt

Tentacularity is about life lived along lines — and such a wealth of lines — not at points, not in spheres. “The inhabitants of the world, creatures of all kinds, human and non-human, are wayfarers”; generations are like “a series of interlaced trails.”

- Donna Harraway

Collections of imagery that seem to visually relate to compost heaps

Metacommunicative systems
Networks
Connectivity
Echoes
Imaginitive parallels
Tentacles

Note to self: artist Henry Driver is making work about subterranean connectivity https://www.henrydriverartist.com/Unseen&Unceasing.html

Cosmic Strings

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Neural Networks

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Dark Matter

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Roots

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Capillary Networks

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Two slime moulds having a chat

Tentacular Thinking by Donna Harraway - https://www.e-flux.com/journal/75/67125/tentacular-thinking-anthropocene-capitalocene-chthulucene/

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Memory encoding

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Bethany Kohrt https://www.bethanykohrt.com

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