Multispecies Knots of Ethical Time

Summary

Anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose traces how the lives of different species are knotted together in time, through death, nourishment and gift. Her paper looks for places where “time, species, and nourishment become densely knotted up”, follows the ripples of human-caused mass death through those knots, and reaches towards “a practice of writing as witness”.

Rationale

Separation, as we describe it, sets us apart from future generations and the other-than-human world. Her knots tie species together across time, binding us back into both.