Adjusted styles of communication (ASCs) in the post-Cartesian world

Abstract

This chapter asks what words are appropriate for communicating about animism and the animate world. European languages are thoroughly shaped by efforts to separate humans from other beings and “culture(s)” from “nature.” These pervasive linguistic conventions and habits make it hard to speak about the larger-than-human community and about the braidedness of humans as co-dwellers, co-evolvers, co-dependents with other beings. They mitigate against efforts to understand what animists say or do within a world that they treat as thoroughly relational. This chapter seeks to learn from animist styles of communication with our other-than-human relations in order to adjust our styles of communication so as to be able to speak more interestingly and adequately about the animate world.

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