How to Give Up: A talk by social thinker Dougald Hine
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AMOR MUNDI Multispecies Ecological Worldmaking Lab’s "Seeking Symbiopoiesis with the More-Than-Human Against the Anthropocene” Speaker Series presents: "How to Give Up": A talk by social thinker, writer and speaker, Dougald Hine with roundtable discussion with Bayo Akomolafe, Ciclón Olivares, and Maya Kóvskaya, moderated by Athong Makury. ABOUT THE TALK When Dougald Hine co-wrote the Dark Mountain manifesto in 2009, people accused the project of "giving up" and, worse, encouraging others to do so. This was said as though to give up were an absolute moral failing, but to Dougald it has never seemed that simple. In fact, he argues that "giving up" can be a necessary step, a precondition for becoming able to see the world otherwise and find the moves that are called for now, the moves that will be called for as we live through the failures of the project of "saving the world" by attempting to secure an extension of trajectories of "progress", "development" or "growth" belonging to modernity. To give up is always to give up on something, though at the time it may well feel like everything. The question is what we are giving up on and how we come to see the world as a consequence. In this talk, Dougald draws on the conversations with Gustavo Esteva, Vanessa Andreotti and other thinkers who have shaped his understanding of what is at stake, to retrace the path that led him to write At Work In The Ruins, and to open up a conversation about what we do next, once we have given up. ABOUT THE BOOK "At Work in the Ruins is one of the most perceptive and thought-provoking books yet written about the multiple intersecting crises that are now upending our once-familiar world. Of particular importance is Hine's deeply respectful yet unsparing analysis of the strengths and limitations of science in reckoning with these crises. At Work in the Ruins is essential reading for these turbulent times.” — Amitav Ghosh, author of The Great Derangement and The Nutmeg’s Curse Book Available Pre-Order At: Chelsea Green, Bookshop.org, and Amazon ABOUT THE SPEAKER Dougald Hine is a social thinker, writer and speaker. After an early career as a BBC journalist, he has gone on to co-found a series of organisations including the Dark Mountain Project and a school called HOME. He is the co-author of Uncivilisation: The Dark Mountain Manifesto (2009). His latest book, At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics & All the Other Emergencies is published by Chelsea Green in February 2023. Website:
https://dougald.nu/
ABOUT AMOR MUNDI Multispecies Ecological Worldmaking Lab The AMOR MUNDI Multispecies Ecological Worldmaking Lab is an intersectional multidisciplinary research initiative in the Global South investigating how human and more-than-human world-making and survival are mutually entangled. Our aim is to grow a knowledge-making community by fostering dialogues and collaborations amongst disciplines spanning ecophilosophy and ecological political theory, ethology, animal, plant, and critical life studies, geography, anthropology, political and social sciences, humanities, arts, and natural sciences, through research, publications, workshops, curated conversations, art/science exhibitions, multispecies ethnography, and innovative pedagogy. SPEAKER SERIES CURATOR Maya Kóvskaya ORGANIZER —AMOR MUNDI Multispecies Ecological Worldmaking Lab EVENT MANAGER Blake Palmer
Thanks so much for posting this, finally made the time to listen to it and glad I did.
It's time for this perspective to be followed through. It has to be part of an honest journey to the future. It's giving up on modernity and its fascist endgame, and uncovering the alternative that has been squashed for so long.