Crone politics

This video stresses something important: that I am not important.

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Who am I? Not the centre, just the periphery.

I am the eyes that see and the ears that hear; the heart and mind entangled within a new becoming.

I am trying feel inside the I that is you; to see through the eyes that are yours

I am the liminal one, seeking to cross the threshold – beguiled by the feral languages of a more-than-human world.

I am opening the door to a place where I become you, at least in translation.

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This is a practice.

Vinciane Despret, considering the work of anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, writes of paying attention “with an added sense of being attuned, of ‘giving your attention’ to other beings and at the same time acknowledging the way other beings are themselves attentive. It is another way of acknowledging importance, becoming aware of, of multiplying ‘modes of existence’ – in other words, ‘ways of experiencing, of feeling, of making sense, and of granting importance to things’.”