Hey there, it's Nick.

I'm going to do something a bit different today and turn things over to one of my favorite

recent podcast discoveries, Future Ecologies.

Future Ecologies is one of those rare shows that challenges how we move through the world,

but never in a way that feels didactic or glib.

It has a playfulness with ideas and an ease with irresolution that personally I find very

appealing.

And on top of all that, it's beautifully produced.

This is from their episode Geopoetics.

Here's Future Ecologies co-host Mendelssohnsky to explain more.

What you're about to hear comes from a gathering on Clujus, Flamen, and Humalco territory,

specifically Cortez Island in the spring of 2022.

It was a symposium of artists and scholars of all description, assembled to reflect

on, discuss, and share their practice.

Namely, that at an intersection referred to as Geopoetics.

The word poem comes to us from the Greek Poean, meaning to make or create, and which

would also be borrowed into the word Simpoesus.

Quoting from Donna Haraway, Simpoesus is a simple word.

It means making with.

Quoting really makes itself.

Nothing is really auto-poetic, or self-organizing.

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