Co-producing worlds, co-producing politics
 
The Authority Research Network spent seven days retreating in the spectacular Beara peninsula, West Cork, Ireland. Stationed in Bothar Buí from June 4th-11th we read, discussed and wrote about the cruelty of attachment, the possibilities for more-than-human collaboration in capitalist ruins, and the re-enchantment of hopeful (humanist?) politics at a time when surviving seems to mark the limit of what is thought possible. These themes, and the tensions between them, will be the scaffolding of a forthcoming collection of essays entitled: ‘Problems of Hope’. We hope to have it finished by the autumn.
 
The readings we discussed included:
 
Day # 1 Co-producing more-than-human worlds
* Chapter 5 from Cruel Optimism, Lauren Berlant, 2011
* Part I from The Mushroom at the End of the World, Anna Tsing, 2016
 
Day # 2 Co-producing ethics/politics
* Chapter 4 from The Spirit of Revolution Beyond the Dead Ends of Man, Cornell & Seely, 2016
* Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power OR Interview (‘Re-enchanting Humanism’) with Sylvia Wynter
 
Optional extras
On writing:
* Star, S. L., & Bowker, G. C. (2007). Enacting silence: Residual categories as a challenge for ethics, information systems, and communication. Ethics and Information Technology, 9(4), 273-280.
* Chapter 'On Writing' from Light in the Dark, Anzaldua, 2015
On Simondon:
* Marie-Pier Boucher (2012), Infra-Psychic Individualization: Transductive Connections and the Genesis of the Living Techniques. in A. De Boever, A. Murray, J. Roffe, A. Woodward (Eds.) Gilbert Simondon. Being and Technology. Edinburgh University Press.
On participatory turn as a global multisite construction place:
Remaking Participation: Science, Environment and Emergent Publics 2016 Edited by Jason Chilvers, Matthew Kearnes
On Commons & Infrastructure:
Lauren Berlant paper based on AAG keynote, ‘The Commons: Infrastructures for Troubling Tiimes’, 2015.
On materializing justice:
* Papadopoulos, D. (2012). Worlding justice/commoning matter. Occasion: interdisciplinary studies in the humanities, 3(1).
 

As part of our project on Participation's "Others": A Cartography of Creative Listening Practices, Julian Brigstocke and Tehseen Noorani have edited a special forum on More-than-human Attunement in the new Association of American Geographers journal GeoHumanities. 

GeoHumanities Forum on AttunementPosthuman Attunements: Aesthetics, Authority and the Arts of Creative Listening by Julian Brigstocke and Tehseen Noorani


Aesthetics, Politics, and Attunement: On Some Questions Brought by Alterity and Ontology by Mark Jackson


Open Access: Ecological Attunement in a Theological Key: Adventures in Antifascist Aesthetics by Claire Blencowe


Public Attunement with More-than-Human Others: Witnessing the Life and Death of Bear 71 by Gwendolyn Blue


The Making of the Brave Sheep or … the Laboratory as the Unlikely Space of Attunement to Animal Emotions by Mara Miele


African Orature as Ecophilosophy: Tuning in to the Voices of the Land by Anatoli Ignatov

Forum on Attunement: Practices and CurationsOpen Access: Exhausted Futures by Julian Brigstocke