On the Educative Potential of Reservoir Bats: Practices of Response-Ability for the Chthulucene
On the Educative Potential of Reservoir Bats: Practices of Response-Ability for the Chthulucene
Author(s): Victoria O’SullivanSubject(s): Health and medicine and law, Environmental interactions
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Keywords: Australian bushfires; Haraway; string figures; Anthropocene; intrusion of Gaia;
Summary/Abstract: Arguably, ‘we’ (or at least those who take hearing for granted) are attending to the world more sensitively through sound, becoming more aware of its presence and absence: becoming more bat-like. Perhaps bats have propelled into existence new sonic-relationships for humans and are encouraging us to attend more closely to the becoming sonic-world. Might they be asking us to finally listen/see/feel/note more keenly that which is right in front of us?
Journal: Knowledge Cultures
- Issue Year: 8/2020
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 16-22
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English
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