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Shannon Mattern - multispecies worldbuilding lab
multispeciesworldbuilding.comI need a greater facility with multispecies languages. I am engaging in a conversation across cultural divides with other multitudes, whose languages and modes of perception we have only just begun to explore.
David Waltner-Toews • On the shared genetic memories between us, the cat and the fly | Aeon Essays
Understanding Living Systems
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ON REBUILDING & METAPHORS
Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab • Shannon Mattern - multispecies worldbuilding lab
ON LIBRARIESI was visiting public libraries and ultimately writing my dissertation about them and realizing it’s not about people engaging with kind of romanticized documents. There is some of that in the library, but it’s also compromised bodies interacting with compromised bodies, often the most marginalized people in societies and also really be... See more
Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab • Shannon Mattern - multispecies worldbuilding lab
I have been thinking primarily about how the pandemic has changed the way we think about cities and ecologies. What metaphors are actually useful in thinking about this moment, this era of rebuilding, of worldmaking to use a central theme for your project.
Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab • Shannon Mattern - multispecies worldbuilding lab
On Nonscalability: The Living World Is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales
The document explores how scalability, the ability to expand without changing the framework, has shaped modern projects, economies, and knowledge, leading to a loss of transformative diversity.
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