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<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\nThis series engages with one of the most imaginative theoretical responses to the complexity of the material situation in which humans and non-humans alike find themselves in the so-called\u00a0\u2018Anthropocene’: New Materialism<\/em>. The series grapples with the need to move beyond the human-centred vision of sociality lying at the heart of the global order, and to engage with the theoretical and empirical implications of new science, complexity and a fresh appreciation of the forces of materiality itself. Hothouse Earth is increasingly forcing movements, drifts and collisions\u2014human, animal, insectal, vegetal, aqueous, and atmospheric\u2014that force a confrontation between ‘the ecological’ and ‘the socio-economic-political’ and demand new ways of thinking and being.\u00a0New\u00a0materialism\u2014and such vectors of movement and pressure\u2014render the traditional sense of human agency implausible at best. Such developments have complex implications for law, politics and the construction of the social.<\/p>\n Hosted by the Centre of Law and Society<\/em> and the Environmental Justice Research Unit<\/em>, this series takes participants on a dazzling intellectual journey. Thus far we have encountered various lively agentic forces: sand, air, algorithms, water, insects and drones. We have considered law, property, urban landscape, spatial justice, ecological security, and international humanitarian law\u2014and now, with two new speakers, we move on to examine interspecies cadence and urban life\u2014and the political economy of milk production and consumption in the\u00a0\u2018Age of Humans\u2019. All are most welcome to join the discussion, whether or not you are familiar with New Materialist thought.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n 1pm, Law building room 2.30\/2.30a<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Teresa Dillon, Professor of City Futures, Bristol UWE\u2014and Resident at the Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol<\/strong><\/p>\n In \u2018Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene\u2019 (2016), Donna Haraway, proposes that a humanity with a more earthly integrity, \u2018invites the priority of our pulling back and scaling down, of welcoming limitations of our numbers, economies, and habitats for the sake of a higher, more inclusive freedom and quality of life\u2019 (p.50). While this statement carries capacities for imagining new ways of living, it equally raises the question what a more earthly integrity and inclusive freedom and quality of life, actually means. For Haraway this revolves around entangled understandings of kin, multispecies justice and feminist leadership. Tsing (2012, 2017) further expands on such knotted kinship by emphasising how our human nature is an interspecies relationship that emerges in part through what\u00a0Vygotsky (1980) would consider as the active participation with others in meaning making, or what Barad (2007) would refer to as the\u00a0materialisation of intra-action.\u00a0Despite such worldly understandings, in the face of increased\u00a0biodiversity loss, extreme weather events, and human-made and natural disasters,\u00a0such tethered realities are often negated in favour of more state-centred politics and geo-economic logics. Given the dominance of such framings on the daily ordering of life, the need to carve out spaces for listening, care, attending and attuning to the nuanced understandings of our interspecies relationships becomes all the more important. This paper presents how contemporary artists are dealing with such relationships. Drawing on the work of Terike Haapoja,\u00a0Maja Smrekar, Laurie Anderson and others, including that of the author, emphasis is placed on species presence, visibility and privilege, with a focus on urban contexts and settings. Links will be made to how such works and narratives play a vital role in the everyday understanding of\u00a0human nature as an interspecies relationship.<\/p>\n Teresa Dillon is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher and educator. Her work\u00a0emerges from a long-standing investigation into ideas of survival and the techno-civic with a critical focus on infrastructural histories, commoning and governance, hospitality and encountering.\u00a0Recent work includes the installation\u00a0AMHARC\u00a0(2018), the performance\u00a0MTCD-A Visual Anthology of My Machine Life\u00a0(2017), and academic texts, \u2018Working the breaking point: maintenance, repair and failure in art\u2019 (2017) and \u2018Listening Around: Sonic Extractions of the Electromagnetic Spectrum\u2019 (forthcoming). Since 2013, Teresa has directed\u00a0Urban Knights, a programme of talks and workshops that explores practical alternatives to city living and in 2018, established the international network\u00a0Repair Acts.\u00a0www.polarproduce.org\u00a0www.urbanknights.org\u00a0www.repairacts.net\u00a0Twitter: @TeresaDillon<\/p>\n 1pm, Law building room 1.28<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Yoriko Otomo, Independent Researcher, Author of\u00a0\u00a0\u2018The Gentle Cannibal: The Rise and Fall of Lawful Milk\u2019 (Australian Feminist Law Journal) and Co-Editor of Making Milk: The Past, Present and Future of Our Primary Food (Bloomsbury, 2017).<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018Modern\u2019 humans have existed for around 200,000 years\u2014a tiny blip in the history of life on Earth. Indeed, so brief has been our sojourn that it is a stretch of the imagination to declare it an \u2018Age\u2019\u2014in any event, it is clear from the numbers (population\/rate of consumption; the collapse of major planetary systems that are conditions for our survival)\u2014that our \u2018Age\u2019 is at an end. What is of interest to note is that in the face of extinction, growing numbers of people have started becoming more mindful about their consumer habits. One of these habits\u2014drinking milk past infancy into adulthood\u2014has shifted for large percentages of dairy-consuming populations. Surprisingly, perhaps, this is manifest not in the reduction or cessation of milk-drinking, but in an explosion of plant-based \u2018milks\u2019. This paper looks at the historical political economy of milk to make sense of our evolving milk cultures, and asks what their significance may be at the end of the \u2018Age of Humans\u2019.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Image: ‘Grey: Detail’: Anna Grear<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Imagining the Eco-Social: New Materialist Reflections for the Anthropocene\u2019\u2014Two New Speaker Events This series engages with one of the most imaginative theoretical responses to the complexity of the material situation […]","protected":false},"author":1352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33,14],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-workshop","tag-anthropocene-imagination-new-materialism-future-entanglement-environmental-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8SO1T-7f","jetpack-related-posts":[],"meta_box":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/centre-for-environmental-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/centre-for-environmental-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/centre-for-environmental-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/centre-for-environmental-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/centre-for-environmental-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/centre-for-environmental-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/centre-for-environmental-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/centre-for-environmental-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/centre-for-environmental-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/centre-for-environmental-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}February 13th, 2019: ‘Dancing with the Dog: Interspecies cadence and urban life’<\/h3>\n
March 18th\u00a02019: ‘Milk-Drinking Cultures at the End of the Age of the Humans’<\/h3>\n