Ellen Mane

Currently exploring reality, or what is it | writer | poet

[Willy De Backer (on @art4theark.bsky.social) @3eintelligence]

'I think there is an incommensurability in this, a vast chasm between the Western imagining of climate change and the imagining of the planetary crisis in the global south' - interesting interview of @GhoshAmitav

[Joel Scott-Halkes @Joelscotthalkes]

Nearly every world leader at #COP26 is male.

The #patriarchy seems abstract until you realise that the future or humanity rests this week almost exclusively in the hands of men.

@gailbradbrook #ClimateEmergency

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

Is there a word like "genocide" but when it is directed against today's youth and future generations?

[Hari Kondabolu @harikondabolu]

Privilege is having room for error.

[dweller @dwellerforever]

New on the blog: personal histories of systemic erasure in non-western electronic music spanning from Japan to Iran to Indonesia by @amazinggaijin

https://t.co/Gs44WIBYei

[Nick Axel @alucidwake]

Civilization is a slow process of figuring out how to communicate

[Ollie Palmer @_olliepalmer]

This morning's distraction has been looking at images of crossed-writing, a practice to save on paper/postage.

[Lion's Roar @LionsRoar]

Language is not a uniquely human possession. Every bird, every rock face, every bend in the gushing stream carries the power of meaningful speech. Ultimately, says David Abram, it is not we who speak—it’s the earth that speaks through us.

https://t.co/QQPTWlwONY

[Emergence Magazine @emergence_zine]

In this essay from our Technology Issue, Paul Kingsnorth reflects on writing as an alchemical process, one involving transformation, discipline, and purification. https://t.co/YTzM46jwne

[Emergence Magazine @emergence_zine]

“I really think language can heal. I think you can heal more than just the person speaking—I think it can heal everything.” —Phil Albers, Karuk Language Keeper.

https://t.co/8tg02OT8DP

[Eyob Derillo @DerilloEyob]

The misconception that Africa has no writing system, is a 19th c. European missionary invention. Missionaries introduced Roman script in Africa to replace earlier writing systems. Africa has one of the world oldest system of writing. e.g #Ethiopia #Nubia #Egypt #Nigeria #Nsibidi

[K 🕸🐬 @kalladomcdowell]

Language generates intimacy as it conveys interior perceptions. This was particularly disorienting. Who was I talking to? Can AI be a portal to something beyond itself? Can language? How is a tarot deck different than a neural net? Do butterflies know they have camouflage? /

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

It is telling that our civilization is more willing to ascribe intelligence to machines than it is to recognize the intelligence of plants, animals and ecosystems.

[FIBER @FIBERFestival]

Session 2: "Posthuman Teritories" starts at 20:00 and will feature: @hollyjeanbuck (onsite), @tegabrain (offsite) & #ArifKornweitz - https://t.co/ikgCPRmQfv - #fiberfestival2020

[Ellen Mane @EllenMane_]

Interested in digital culture, audiovisual art, speculative design and music culture? Check: https://t.co/e1LEGnRXZt Today: Online session with Anab Jain, Darko Lagunas & Theun Karelse, Suzanne Dhaliwal. Starts at 5PM CEST https://t.co/PbTM4dv0Ii

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

The best thing about the internet is that people who felt completely alone can find a community that shares their worldview and organize.

The worst thing about the internet is that people who felt completely alone can find a community that shares their worldview and organize.

[Ellen Mane @EllenMane_]

LIVE Studio Visit in 10 minutes (8PM, Amsterdam) w/ @FIBERFestival https://t.co/6EMWPsI3JO Artists/makers @VeravandeSeyp & @markijzerman: new technologies, code, data, machine learning, and earth observation. Their work blurs the boundaries between art, sound, design & media.

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

We need a climate movement so big it transcends activism and becomes simple common sense.

[Bella Lack @BellaLack]

“We look to the stars, contemplating the unlikely forms of life elsewhere, yet the biodiversity on Earth is beyond the realms of imagination”. @gunsnrosesgirl3

https://t.co/CuMcwHAw2R

[Karen Attiah @KarenAttiah]

What too many folks are afraid of isn’t “cancel culture”.

They are afraid of losing power.

Exhibiting symptoms of status anxiety because too many have refused to keep up with the times.

Coddling intellectual laziness and harmful rhetoric is no longer a moral virtue.