Enfleshed: Ecologies of Entities and Beings is a new book that asks, 'How do we imagine an active and implicated role of the human as one being among other beings? It examines what this might entail and what the effects may be.
The book (which has sold out its first run) brings together practitioners, thinkers and artists from across Eurasia to explore multi-species ecologies. It reflects anthrodecentric (crudely defined as decentering, or removing we humans away from the centre of things) and embodied approaches to collaboration and knowledge production.
Contributors engage in an exploration of experimental epistemic (of, or relating to knowledge or epistemology) alliances which operate as a way to learn and make new dialogic relations. The conflicts generated by ecological disaster, war, the global economy, identity politics and the power structures of knowledge production and science here intertwine with shamanisms, rituals, magic, speculation, politics and poetics.
With contributions from Zoénie Deng, Rick Dolphijn, Stephan Dudeck & Christian Vagt & Yuri Vella, Taru Elfving, Giovanna Esposito Yussif & David Muñoz Alcántara (NÆS-Nomad Agency/Archive of Emergent Studies), Fu Xiaodong, Han Xiaohan, Kristiina Koskentola, Marjolein van der Loo, Mi You, German Popov, Nikolay Smirnov, Bo Wang, and Müge Yilmaz.
Onomatopee, 176pp, 17cm x 12cm, paperback, 2023