small eddies of interlocking lives

small eddies of interlocking lives explores forms of interaction drawn from ecological systems responding to climate change and extraction-capitalism. Disturbance enables remarkable growth, generating new forms, renewing structures, and exposing buried strata, which offers a small optimism for the resiliency of the natural world.

“People and trees are caught in irreversible histories of disturbance. But some kinds of disturbance have been followed by regrowth of a sort that nurtures many lives. Peasant oak-pine forests have been eddies of stability and cohabitation. Yet they are often put into motion by great cataclysms, such as the deforestation that accompanies national industrialization. Small eddies of interlocking lives within great rivers of disturbance: these are surely sites for thinking about human talents for remediation. But there is also the forest’s point of view. Despite all insults, resurgence has not yet ceased.”

Anna Tsing – The Mushroom at the End of the World

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