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Exemption
on civil disobedience, privilege and ecocide I’d tend to say I’ve not much use for hope in the face of ecological collapse, but of course XR has a wild, improbable hope written all over it. Despite how bad things look, I still feel the visceral pull of that hope or I wouldn’t be caught up…
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Full ahead
On knowing where we’re headed, and not minding. A couple of months before Extinction Rebellion’s April 2019 uprising I attended a talk hosted by Falmouth University’s multi-faith chaplaincy. The event was billed as The Spirituality of Ecology. The speaker was the Rev Lucy Larkin, an Anglican Priest and Doctor of something called eco-theology – a…
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The wipe board
In April 2014 I arrived at the threshold of a practice-led PhD. My proposed project borrowed an idea from the eco-philosopher David Abram: cultural recuperation. I had a vague plan in mind to make pictures and poems which spoke to the widespread contemporary re-imagining of the spiritual, as people gravitate to appropriate processes of repair…
Sea Crow 