On March 8, 2019, David Abram gave a guest workshop on cultural ecology and philosophy.Ìý
Most of the indigenous cultures that environmentalists now extol for practicing a respectful and reciprocal relation to other animals, to plants, and to the surrounding terrain were traditionally oral -- or non-writing -- cultures. How did the advent of writing, and literacy, transform humankind’s sensorial experience of the more-than-human natural world? And how did it transform our understanding of language and linguistic meaning? This workshop will explore the old, ancestral intimacy between story and place, between living language and the animate earth.