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Keynote Speakers
Peter Cole & Pat O’Riley
Abstract for:
Coyote and Raven (P)re-visit Sustainability, Technology and Run-away Capitalism - Now in Paperback
This conversation between two tricksters brings together ancestral pre-post- and–con-temporary realms of Indigeneity transinterposing with co-opt/ed/ing ratio-provisional temporo-spatializations of pre-post-and-extra-agricultural, pastoral, and industrial interventions ofwithonagainstdespite the land-water-air-animus sometimes referred to as ‘the earth’. We are our ancestors are our descendants are their actions, visions and strategies and none can be described as solely noun-based nor primarily as contemporaneous with the illusive and presumed present. We are the words we think use wield. As we parse, as we knead, as we infect the earth with our philosophies, beliefs, dreams, memories and technologies, so are we conjugated declensioned noun-verb chimeras. The words drown (us) as we try to make them make sense. But sense is the primary verb that crushes, renders, displaces life. We are the words—they are not separate from us. How might the language and languaging of environmental education encourage a conversation and enactment of spirit, nurturance and reciprocity with all of being-becoming without reproducing the attitudes and actions that went before?