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Book SynopsisArts-Based Thought Experiments is a highly visual offering that engages visual arts, photography, poetry, creative non-fiction, memoir and speculative fiction. In this novel book, the authors lean deeply into concepts of the imaginary, and through artful experiments with thought, trouble the tensions between the human, the posthuman and the more than human. In the Anthropocene, with its intractable challenges and cataclysms, engaging posthuman positions when thinking of learning in socioecological terms is paramount to human survival. In this sense, the arts offer creative and critical thought for the possibilities of a post-Anthropocene earth. Contributors are: Raoul Adam, Marilyn Ahearn, William Boyd, Euan Boyd, Adrienne Brown, Shae L. Brown, Teresa Carapeto, Philemon Chigeza, Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, David Ellis, Katie Hotko, Rita L. Irwin, Marianne Logan, Ferdousi Khatun, Alexandra Lasczik, Alys Mendus, Yaw Ofosu-Asare, Maia Osborn, Marie-Laurence Paquette, Jemma Peisker, Ziah Peisker, Adrienne Piscopo, David Rousell, Ben Ryan, Billy Ryan, Lisa Siegel, Helen Widdop Quinton, Thilinika Wijesinghe and Tracy Young.
Table of ContentsForeword Rita L. Irwin Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Prologue: Fold, Unfolding, Enfolding: Socioecological Learning through Arts-Based Thought Experiments Alexandra Lasczik and Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles 1 Who Can Speak for the Earth? Working the Socioecological Touchstones of the Anthropocene, the Posthuman and Common Worlds through the Creative Milieux of Speculative Fiction Alexandra Lasczik and Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles 2 Posthuman Arts-Based Experimentation through Place-as-Event Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, Alexandra Lasczik, Lisa Siegel and Tracy Young 3 Walking the Mandala: A Big-Little Way of Being and Knowing in Disrupted Worlds Raoul Adam, Thilinika Wijesinghe, Yaw Ofosu Asare and Philemon Chigeza 4 The Risky Socioecological Learner Jemma Peisker, Ben Ryan, Billy Ryan and Ziah Peisker 5 Vortex(t): The Becoming of the Socioecological Learner-Teacher-Researcher William Boyd, Marie-Laurence Paquette, Shae Brown, Euan Boyd and Adrienne Piscopo 6 Big (Hi)Story: Experimenting with Deep-Time Marilyn Ahearn and Teresa Carapeto 7 Sight/Site/Insight-ful Socioecological Learning Revisited: Further Collaborative Arts-Based Experimentations In-Place Alexandra Lasczik, Adrienne Brown, Katie Hotko, David Ellis and David Rousell 8 Playing with Posthumanism with/in/as/for Communities: Generative, Messy, Uncomfortable Thought Experiments Maia Osborn and Helen Widdop Quinton 9 Agency, Power and Resistance from the Perspectives of All Beings: A Visual Ethnographic Inquiry Marianne Logan, Thilinika Wijesinghe and Ferdousi Khatun Afterword: Entangled Found Poetry as Afterword Alys Mendus Index
