Collective Bodies - Revision history

Juju: /* collective bodies */

2022-04-18T14:34:46Z

collective bodies

Juju: /* collective bodies */

2022-04-12T09:24:35Z

collective bodies

← Older revision		Revision as of 11:24, 12 April 2022
Line 6:		Line 6:
	<span class="page-break"> </span>		<span class="page-break"> </span>

	Starting a <mark class="c2">Zoöp</mark> is to declare a new ''collective body''. It is laying out a new, shared skin. This is the first act in <mark class="c1">zoönomy</mark>, a practice of fostering ecological integrity for groups consisting of radically different, human, and other-than-human bodies that find themselves joined together in this new type of community.		<div class="no-indent">Starting a <mark class="c2">Zoöp</mark> is to declare a new ''collective body''. It is laying out a new, shared skin. This is the first act in <mark class="c1">zoönomy</mark>, a practice of fostering ecological integrity for groups consisting of radically different, human, and other-than-human bodies that find themselves joined together in this new type of community.</div>

	A <mark class="c2">Zoöp</mark> is an effort to claim a shared reality among highly divergent bodies. To call them a collective body is partly a trick, a move to direct attention. It is partly hopeful aspiration and partly something that was found to be part of the idea of ‘body’ all along.		A <mark class="c2">Zoöp</mark> is an effort to claim a shared reality among highly divergent bodies. To call them a collective body is partly a trick, a move to direct attention. It is partly hopeful aspiration and partly something that was found to be part of the idea of ‘body’ all along.

Juju: /* collective bodies */

2022-04-07T09:37:08Z

collective bodies

← Older revision		Revision as of 11:37, 7 April 2022
Line 14:		Line 14:
	To start a <mark class="c2">Zoöp</mark> is thus to articulate a new collective body by saying: you now belong together in a new way. This is the trick. This collection of collective bodies now has to find out how to live together. That is the aspiration.		To start a <mark class="c2">Zoöp</mark> is thus to articulate a new collective body by saying: you now belong together in a new way. This is the trick. This collection of collective bodies now has to find out how to live together. That is the aspiration.

	Any non-abstract, materially existing body is not a singular thing anyway. A singular point only exists as a mathematical construct and abstraction. Any actual dot in any world is never a point but a body and, by that virtue, also some kind of ~~multiplicity – it~~ has an outside and therefore an inside.		Any non-abstract, materially existing body is not a singular thing anyway. A singular point only exists as a mathematical construct and abstraction. Any actual dot in any world is never a point but a body and, by that virtue, also some kind of multiplicity–it has an outside and therefore an inside.

	All collective bodies are networks and part of networks, connected to myriads of other bodies. Many bodies are members of multiple collectives at the same time. Therefore, the boundary of any collective body is not fixed. A collective body’s shared skin needs to be enacted, performed,<ref>Karen Barad, ''Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007).</ref> for a specific purpose and context, and once it has been recognized (or resampled symbolically) by other collective bodies, it will be more sharply defined. It will shimmer into place. New bodies join all the time, and some bodies leave. Performing such a shared skin is the ongoing effort of every <mark class="c2">Zoöp</mark>.		All collective bodies are networks and part of networks, connected to myriads of other bodies. Many bodies are members of multiple collectives at the same time. Therefore, the boundary of any collective body is not fixed. A collective body’s shared skin needs to be enacted, performed,<ref>Karen Barad, ''Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007).</ref> for a specific purpose and context, and once it has been recognized (or resampled symbolically) by other collective bodies, it will be more sharply defined. It will shimmer into place. New bodies join all the time, and some bodies leave. Performing such a shared skin is the ongoing effort of every <mark class="c2">Zoöp</mark>.

Juju: /* collective bodies */

2022-04-07T09:34:55Z

collective bodies

← Older revision		Revision as of 11:34, 7 April 2022
Line 6:		Line 6:
	<span class="page-break"> </span>		<span class="page-break"> </span>

	Starting a <mark class="c2">Zoöp</~~class~~> is to declare a new ''collective body''. It is laying out a new, shared skin. This is the first act in <mark class="c1">zoönomy</mark>, a practice of fostering ecological integrity for groups consisting of radically different, human, and other-than-human bodies that find themselves joined together in this new type of community.		Starting a <mark class="c2">Zoöp</mark> is to declare a new ''collective body''. It is laying out a new, shared skin. This is the first act in <mark class="c1">zoönomy</mark>, a practice of fostering ecological integrity for groups consisting of radically different, human, and other-than-human bodies that find themselves joined together in this new type of community.

	A <mark class="c2">Zoöp</~~class~~> is an effort to claim a shared reality among highly divergent bodies. To call them a collective body is partly a trick, a move to direct attention. It is partly hopeful aspiration and partly something that was found to be part of the idea of ‘body’ all along.		A <mark class="c2">Zoöp</mark> is an effort to claim a shared reality among highly divergent bodies. To call them a collective body is partly a trick, a move to direct attention. It is partly hopeful aspiration and partly something that was found to be part of the idea of ‘body’ all along.

	<span class="tighter2"><mark class="c2">Zoöps</~~class~~> consist of wide varieties of bodies: other-than-human bodies such as microbes and earthworms, trees, plants and algae, water bodies and more; human artefacts such as buildings, machines, and such; organizational bodies such as teams, boards, associations; legal bodies such as owners, third parties with contracts, municipalities, jurisdictions. Clearly, all these bodies are by themselves collective bodies, too, even when they nominally join the <mark class="c2">Zoöp</~~class~~> as single entities.</span>		<span class="tighter2"><mark class="c2">Zoöps</mark> consist of wide varieties of bodies: other-than-human bodies such as microbes and earthworms, trees, plants and algae, water bodies and more; human artefacts such as buildings, machines, and such; organizational bodies such as teams, boards, associations; legal bodies such as owners, third parties with contracts, municipalities, jurisdictions. Clearly, all these bodies are by themselves collective bodies, too, even when they nominally join the <mark class="c2">Zoöp</mark> as single entities.</span>

	To start a <mark class="c2">Zoöp</~~class~~> is thus to articulate a new collective body by saying: you now belong together in a new way. This is the trick. This collection of collective bodies now has to find out how to live together. That is the aspiration.		To start a <mark class="c2">Zoöp</mark> is thus to articulate a new collective body by saying: you now belong together in a new way. This is the trick. This collection of collective bodies now has to find out how to live together. That is the aspiration.

	Any non-abstract, materially existing body is not a singular thing anyway. A singular point only exists as a mathematical construct and abstraction. Any actual dot in any world is never a point but a body and, by that virtue, also some kind of multiplicity – it has an outside and therefore an inside.		Any non-abstract, materially existing body is not a singular thing anyway. A singular point only exists as a mathematical construct and abstraction. Any actual dot in any world is never a point but a body and, by that virtue, also some kind of multiplicity – it has an outside and therefore an inside.

	All collective bodies are networks and part of networks, connected to myriads of other bodies. Many bodies are members of multiple collectives at the same time. Therefore, the boundary of any collective body is not fixed. A collective body’s shared skin needs to be enacted, performed,<ref>Karen Barad, ''Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007).</ref> for a specific purpose and context, and once it has been recognized (or resampled symbolically) by other collective bodies, it will be more sharply defined. It will shimmer into place. New bodies join all the time, and some bodies leave. Performing such a shared skin is the ongoing effort of every <mark class="c2">Zoöp</~~class~~>.		All collective bodies are networks and part of networks, connected to myriads of other bodies. Many bodies are members of multiple collectives at the same time. Therefore, the boundary of any collective body is not fixed. A collective body’s shared skin needs to be enacted, performed,<ref>Karen Barad, ''Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007).</ref> for a specific purpose and context, and once it has been recognized (or resampled symbolically) by other collective bodies, it will be more sharply defined. It will shimmer into place. New bodies join all the time, and some bodies leave. Performing such a shared skin is the ongoing effort of every <mark class="c2">Zoöp</mark>.

	<span class="tighter2">To do the work of the skin is to metabolize particularities of the world and also to put up some resistance—on behalf of the body—to being metabolized. A degree of metabolization is necessary for a body to exist, to be present, but to be metabolized entirely is to cease to exist.<ref>Extrapolated from Elizabeth Povinelli, ''Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016).</ref></span>		<span class="tighter2">To do the work of the skin is to metabolize particularities of the world and also to put up some resistance—on behalf of the body—to being metabolized. A degree of metabolization is necessary for a body to exist, to be present, but to be metabolized entirely is to cease to exist.<ref>Extrapolated from Elizabeth Povinelli, ''Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016).</ref></span>

Juju: /* collective bodies */

2022-04-07T09:33:59Z

collective bodies

← Older revision		Revision as of 11:33, 7 April 2022
Line 2:		Line 2:
	<span class="author">Klaas Kuitenbrouwer</span>		<span class="author">Klaas Kuitenbrouwer</span>

	[[File:CollectiveBodies.jpg\|thumb\|Photo by Patricia de Ruijter – mediakaal.nl]]		[[File:CollectiveBodies.jpg\|thumb\|Photo: Patricia de Ruijter – mediakaal.nl]]

	<span class="page-break"> </span>		<span class="page-break"> </span>

	Starting a ~~zoöp is to declare a new~~ <mark class="c1">''collective body''~~</mark>~~. It is laying out a new, shared skin. This is the first act in <mark class="c1">zoönomy</mark>, a practice of fostering ecological integrity for groups consisting of radically different, human, and other-than-human bodies that find themselves joined together in this new type of community.		Starting a <mark class="c2">Zoöp</class> is to declare a new ''collective body''. It is laying out a new, shared skin. This is the first act in <mark class="c1">zoönomy</mark>, a practice of fostering ecological integrity for groups consisting of radically different, human, and other-than-human bodies that find themselves joined together in this new type of community.

	A ~~zoöp~~ is an effort to claim a shared reality among highly divergent bodies. To call them a collective body is partly a trick, a move to direct attention. It is partly hopeful aspiration and partly something that was found to be part of the idea of ‘body’ all along.		A <mark class="c2">Zoöp</class> is an effort to claim a shared reality among highly divergent bodies. To call them a collective body is partly a trick, a move to direct attention. It is partly hopeful aspiration and partly something that was found to be part of the idea of ‘body’ all along.

	<span class="tighter2">Zoöps consist of wide varieties of bodies: other-than-human bodies such as microbes and earthworms, trees, plants and algae, water bodies and more; human artefacts such as buildings, machines, and such; organizational bodies such as teams, boards, associations; legal bodies such as owners, third parties with contracts, municipalities, jurisdictions. Clearly, all these bodies are by themselves collective bodies, too, even when they nominally join the ~~zoöp~~ as single entities.</span>		<span class="tighter2"><mark class="c2">Zoöps</class> consist of wide varieties of bodies: other-than-human bodies such as microbes and earthworms, trees, plants and algae, water bodies and more; human artefacts such as buildings, machines, and such; organizational bodies such as teams, boards, associations; legal bodies such as owners, third parties with contracts, municipalities, jurisdictions. Clearly, all these bodies are by themselves collective bodies, too, even when they nominally join the <mark class="c2">Zoöp</class> as single entities.</span>

	To start a ~~zoöp~~ is thus to articulate a new collective body by saying: you now belong together in a new way. This is the trick. This collection of collective bodies now has to find out how to live together. That is the aspiration.		To start a <mark class="c2">Zoöp</class> is thus to articulate a new collective body by saying: you now belong together in a new way. This is the trick. This collection of collective bodies now has to find out how to live together. That is the aspiration.

	Any non-abstract, materially existing body is not a singular thing anyway. A singular point only exists as a mathematical construct and abstraction. Any actual dot in any world is never a point but a body and, by that virtue, also some kind of multiplicity – it has an outside and therefore an inside.		Any non-abstract, materially existing body is not a singular thing anyway. A singular point only exists as a mathematical construct and abstraction. Any actual dot in any world is never a point but a body and, by that virtue, also some kind of multiplicity – it has an outside and therefore an inside.

	All collective bodies are networks and part of networks, connected to myriads of other bodies. Many bodies are members of multiple collectives at the same time. Therefore, the boundary of any collective body is not fixed. A collective body’s shared skin needs to be enacted, performed,<ref>Karen Barad, ''Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007).</ref> for a specific purpose and context, and once it has been recognized (or resampled symbolically) by other collective bodies, it will be more sharply defined. It will shimmer into place. New bodies join all the time, and some bodies leave. Performing such a shared skin is the ongoing effort of every ~~zoöp~~.		All collective bodies are networks and part of networks, connected to myriads of other bodies. Many bodies are members of multiple collectives at the same time. Therefore, the boundary of any collective body is not fixed. A collective body’s shared skin needs to be enacted, performed,<ref>Karen Barad, ''Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007).</ref> for a specific purpose and context, and once it has been recognized (or resampled symbolically) by other collective bodies, it will be more sharply defined. It will shimmer into place. New bodies join all the time, and some bodies leave. Performing such a shared skin is the ongoing effort of every <mark class="c2">Zoöp</class>.

	<span class="tighter2">To do the work of the skin is to metabolize particularities of the world and also to put up some resistance—on behalf of the body—to being metabolized. A degree of metabolization is necessary for a body to exist, to be present, but to be metabolized entirely is to cease to exist.<ref>Extrapolated from Elizabeth Povinelli, ''Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016).</ref></span>		<span class="tighter2">To do the work of the skin is to metabolize particularities of the world and also to put up some resistance—on behalf of the body—to being metabolized. A degree of metabolization is necessary for a body to exist, to be present, but to be metabolized entirely is to cease to exist.<ref>Extrapolated from Elizabeth Povinelli, ''Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016).</ref></span>

Juju: /* collective bodies */

2022-03-28T12:40:36Z

collective bodies

← Older revision		Revision as of 14:40, 28 March 2022
Line 6:		Line 6:
	<span class="page-break"> </span>		<span class="page-break"> </span>

	Starting a zoöp is to declare a new collective body. It is laying out a new, shared skin. This is the first act in <mark class="c1">zoönomy</mark>, a practice of fostering ecological integrity for groups consisting of radically different, human, and other-than-human bodies that find themselves joined together in this new type of community.		Starting a zoöp is to declare a new <mark class="c1">''collective body''</mark>. It is laying out a new, shared skin. This is the first act in <mark class="c1">zoönomy</mark>, a practice of fostering ecological integrity for groups consisting of radically different, human, and other-than-human bodies that find themselves joined together in this new type of community.

	A zoöp is an effort to claim a shared reality among highly divergent bodies. To call them a collective body is partly a trick, a move to direct attention. It is partly hopeful aspiration and partly something that was found to be part of the idea of ‘body’ all along.		A zoöp is an effort to claim a shared reality among highly divergent bodies. To call them a collective body is partly a trick, a move to direct attention. It is partly hopeful aspiration and partly something that was found to be part of the idea of ‘body’ all along.

Juju at 10:45, 23 March 2022

2022-03-23T10:45:31Z

← Older revision		Revision as of 12:45, 23 March 2022
Line 18:		Line 18:
	All collective bodies are networks and part of networks, connected to myriads of other bodies. Many bodies are members of multiple collectives at the same time. Therefore, the boundary of any collective body is not fixed. A collective body’s shared skin needs to be enacted, performed,<ref>Karen Barad, ''Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007).</ref> for a specific purpose and context, and once it has been recognized (or resampled symbolically) by other collective bodies, it will be more sharply defined. It will shimmer into place. New bodies join all the time, and some bodies leave. Performing such a shared skin is the ongoing effort of every zoöp.		All collective bodies are networks and part of networks, connected to myriads of other bodies. Many bodies are members of multiple collectives at the same time. Therefore, the boundary of any collective body is not fixed. A collective body’s shared skin needs to be enacted, performed,<ref>Karen Barad, ''Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007).</ref> for a specific purpose and context, and once it has been recognized (or resampled symbolically) by other collective bodies, it will be more sharply defined. It will shimmer into place. New bodies join all the time, and some bodies leave. Performing such a shared skin is the ongoing effort of every zoöp.

	<span class="~~tighter~~">To do the work of the skin is to metabolize particularities of the world and also to put up some resistance—on behalf of the body—to being metabolized. A degree of metabolization is necessary for a body to exist, to be present, but to be metabolized entirely is to cease to exist.<ref>Extrapolated from Elizabeth Povinelli, ''Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016).</ref></span>		<span class="tighter2">To do the work of the skin is to metabolize particularities of the world and also to put up some resistance—on behalf of the body—to being metabolized. A degree of metabolization is necessary for a body to exist, to be present, but to be metabolized entirely is to cease to exist.<ref>Extrapolated from Elizabeth Povinelli, ''Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016).</ref></span>

	The constituents of a collective body remain intact bodies. They still have their own skins—a bit thinner at some places, maybe.		The constituents of a collective body remain intact bodies. They still have their own skins—a bit thinner at some places, maybe.

Juju: /* collective bodies */

2022-03-23T10:43:09Z

collective bodies

← Older revision		Revision as of 12:43, 23 March 2022
Line 10:		Line 10:
	A zoöp is an effort to claim a shared reality among highly divergent bodies. To call them a collective body is partly a trick, a move to direct attention. It is partly hopeful aspiration and partly something that was found to be part of the idea of ‘body’ all along.		A zoöp is an effort to claim a shared reality among highly divergent bodies. To call them a collective body is partly a trick, a move to direct attention. It is partly hopeful aspiration and partly something that was found to be part of the idea of ‘body’ all along.

	<span class="~~tighter~~">Zoöps consist of wide varieties of bodies: other-than-human bodies such as microbes and earthworms, trees, plants and algae, water bodies and more; human artefacts such as buildings, machines, and such; organizational bodies such as teams, boards, associations; legal bodies such as owners, third parties with contracts, municipalities, jurisdictions. Clearly, all these bodies are by themselves collective bodies, too, even when they nominally join the zoöp as single entities.</span>		<span class="tighter2">Zoöps consist of wide varieties of bodies: other-than-human bodies such as microbes and earthworms, trees, plants and algae, water bodies and more; human artefacts such as buildings, machines, and such; organizational bodies such as teams, boards, associations; legal bodies such as owners, third parties with contracts, municipalities, jurisdictions. Clearly, all these bodies are by themselves collective bodies, too, even when they nominally join the zoöp as single entities.</span>

	To start a zoöp is thus to articulate a new collective body by saying: you now belong together in a new way. This is the trick. This collection of collective bodies now has to find out how to live together. That is the aspiration.		To start a zoöp is thus to articulate a new collective body by saying: you now belong together in a new way. This is the trick. This collection of collective bodies now has to find out how to live together. That is the aspiration.

Juju: /* collective bodies */

2022-03-22T15:07:48Z

collective bodies

← Older revision		Revision as of 17:07, 22 March 2022
Line 18:		Line 18:
	All collective bodies are networks and part of networks, connected to myriads of other bodies. Many bodies are members of multiple collectives at the same time. Therefore, the boundary of any collective body is not fixed. A collective body’s shared skin needs to be enacted, performed,<ref>Karen Barad, ''Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007).</ref> for a specific purpose and context, and once it has been recognized (or resampled symbolically) by other collective bodies, it will be more sharply defined. It will shimmer into place. New bodies join all the time, and some bodies leave. Performing such a shared skin is the ongoing effort of every zoöp.		All collective bodies are networks and part of networks, connected to myriads of other bodies. Many bodies are members of multiple collectives at the same time. Therefore, the boundary of any collective body is not fixed. A collective body’s shared skin needs to be enacted, performed,<ref>Karen Barad, ''Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007).</ref> for a specific purpose and context, and once it has been recognized (or resampled symbolically) by other collective bodies, it will be more sharply defined. It will shimmer into place. New bodies join all the time, and some bodies leave. Performing such a shared skin is the ongoing effort of every zoöp.

	<span class="tighter">To do the work of the skin is to metabolize particularities of the world and also to put up some resistance—on behalf of the body—to being metabolized. A degree of metabolization is necessary for a body to exist, to be present, but to be metabolized entirely is to cease to exist.<ref>Extrapolated from Elizabeth Povinelli, ''Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016).</ref><span>		<span class="tighter">To do the work of the skin is to metabolize particularities of the world and also to put up some resistance—on behalf of the body—to being metabolized. A degree of metabolization is necessary for a body to exist, to be present, but to be metabolized entirely is to cease to exist.<ref>Extrapolated from Elizabeth Povinelli, ''Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016).</ref></span>

	The constituents of a collective body remain intact bodies. They still have their own skins—a bit thinner at some places, maybe.		The constituents of a collective body remain intact bodies. They still have their own skins—a bit thinner at some places, maybe.

Juju: /* collective bodies */

2022-03-22T15:07:24Z

collective bodies

← Older revision		Revision as of 17:07, 22 March 2022
Line 18:		Line 18:
	All collective bodies are networks and part of networks, connected to myriads of other bodies. Many bodies are members of multiple collectives at the same time. Therefore, the boundary of any collective body is not fixed. A collective body’s shared skin needs to be enacted, performed,<ref>Karen Barad, ''Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007).</ref> for a specific purpose and context, and once it has been recognized (or resampled symbolically) by other collective bodies, it will be more sharply defined. It will shimmer into place. New bodies join all the time, and some bodies leave. Performing such a shared skin is the ongoing effort of every zoöp.		All collective bodies are networks and part of networks, connected to myriads of other bodies. Many bodies are members of multiple collectives at the same time. Therefore, the boundary of any collective body is not fixed. A collective body’s shared skin needs to be enacted, performed,<ref>Karen Barad, ''Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007).</ref> for a specific purpose and context, and once it has been recognized (or resampled symbolically) by other collective bodies, it will be more sharply defined. It will shimmer into place. New bodies join all the time, and some bodies leave. Performing such a shared skin is the ongoing effort of every zoöp.

	To do the work of the skin is to metabolize particularities of the world and also to put up some resistance—on behalf of the body—to being metabolized. A degree of metabolization is necessary for a body to exist, to be present, but to be metabolized entirely is to cease to exist.<ref>Extrapolated from Elizabeth Povinelli, ''Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016).</ref>		<span class="tighter">To do the work of the skin is to metabolize particularities of the world and also to put up some resistance—on behalf of the body—to being metabolized. A degree of metabolization is necessary for a body to exist, to be present, but to be metabolized entirely is to cease to exist.<ref>Extrapolated from Elizabeth Povinelli, ''Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016).</ref><span>

	The constituents of a collective body remain intact bodies. They still have their own skins—a bit thinner at some places, maybe.		The constituents of a collective body remain intact bodies. They still have their own skins—a bit thinner at some places, maybe.

← Older revision		Revision as of 16:34, 18 April 2022
Line 2:		Line 2:
	<span class="author">Klaas Kuitenbrouwer</span>		<span class="author">Klaas Kuitenbrouwer</span>

	[[File:CollectiveBodies.jpg\|thumb\|Photo: Patricia de Ruijter – mediakaal.nl]]		[[File:CollectiveBodies.jpg\|thumb\|Photo: Patricia de Ruijter – mediakaal.nl.]]

	<span class="page-break"> </span>		<span class="page-break"> </span>

	<div class="no-indent">Starting a <mark class="c2">Zoöp</mark> is to declare a new ''collective body''. It is laying out a new, shared skin. This is the first act in <mark class="c1">zoönomy</mark>, a practice of fostering ecological integrity for groups consisting of radically different, human, and other-than-human bodies that find themselves joined together in this new type of community.</div>		<div class="no-indent">Starting a <mark class="c2">Zoöp</mark> is to declare a new ''collective body''.
			<br>It is laying out a new, shared skin. This is the first act in <mark class="c4">zoönomy</mark>, a practice of fostering ecological integrity for groups consisting of radically different, human, and other-than-human bodies that find themselves joined together in this new type of community.</div>

	A <mark class="c2">Zoöp</mark> is an effort to claim a shared reality among highly divergent bodies. To call them a collective body is partly a trick, a move to direct attention. It is partly hopeful aspiration and partly something that was found to be part of the idea of ‘body’ all along.		A <mark class="c2">Zoöp</mark> is an effort to claim a shared reality among highly divergent bodies. To call them a collective body is partly a trick, a move to direct attention. It is partly hopeful aspiration and partly something that was found to be part of the idea of ‘body’ all along.
Line 14:		Line 15:
	To start a <mark class="c2">Zoöp</mark> is thus to articulate a new collective body by saying: you now belong together in a new way. This is the trick. This collection of collective bodies now has to find out how to live together. That is the aspiration.		To start a <mark class="c2">Zoöp</mark> is thus to articulate a new collective body by saying: you now belong together in a new way. This is the trick. This collection of collective bodies now has to find out how to live together. That is the aspiration.

	Any non-abstract, materially existing body is not a singular thing anyway. A singular point only exists as a mathematical construct and abstraction. Any actual dot in any world is never a point but a body and, by that virtue, also some kind of ~~multiplicity–it~~ has an outside and therefore an inside.		Any non-abstract, materially existing body is not a singular thing anyway. A singular point only exists as a mathematical construct and abstraction. Any actual dot in any world is never a point but a body and, by that virtue, also some kind of multiplicity—it has an outside and therefore an inside.

	All collective bodies are networks and part of networks, connected to myriads of other bodies. Many bodies are members of multiple collectives at the same time. Therefore, the boundary of any collective body is not fixed. A collective body’s shared skin needs to be enacted, performed,<ref>Karen Barad, ''Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007).</ref> for a specific purpose and context, and once it has been recognized (or resampled symbolically) by other collective bodies, it will be more sharply defined. It will shimmer into place. New bodies join all the time, and some bodies leave. Performing such a shared skin is the ongoing effort of every <mark class="c2">Zoöp</mark>.		All collective bodies are networks and part of networks, connected to myriads of other bodies. Many bodies are members of multiple collectives at the same time. Therefore, the boundary of any collective body is not fixed. A collective body’s shared skin needs to be enacted, performed,<ref>Karen Barad, ''Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007).</ref> for a specific purpose and context, and once it has been recognized (or resampled symbolically) by other collective bodies, it will be more sharply defined. It will shimmer into place. New bodies join all the time, and some bodies leave. Performing such a shared skin is the ongoing effort of every <mark class="c2">Zoöp</mark>.
Line 22:		Line 23:
	The constituents of a collective body remain intact bodies. They still have their own skins—a bit thinner at some places, maybe.		The constituents of a collective body remain intact bodies. They still have their own skins—a bit thinner at some places, maybe.

	The Umwelt or life-world<ref>Jakob von Uexküll, ''A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans: ~~with~~ a Theory of Meaning'' (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010), originally published in German: ''Streifzüge durch die Umwelten von Tieren und Menschen'' (Berlijn: Verlag von Julius Springer, 1934).</ref> of any body is that which can be metabolized: chemically, aesthetically, conceptually, politically, economically. Different bodies, different rules, different chemistry.		The Umwelt or life-world<ref>Jakob von Uexküll, ''A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans: With a Theory of Meaning'' (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010), originally published in German: ''Streifzüge durch die Umwelten von Tieren und Menschen'' (Berlijn: Verlag von Julius Springer, 1934).</ref> of any body is that which can be metabolized: chemically, aesthetically, conceptually, politically, economically. Different bodies, different rules, different chemistry.

	<references />		<references />