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Working as a transdisciplinary scholar can be tricky: one can take neither authors nor audiences nor citation pools for granted. No proper question is answered by saying you should have read what I have read. Audiences of all kinds today are in the middle of actively diverging in practices as well as unpredictable in their circulations. And, at the same time, “author-ness” and its responsibilities to authorship and authority are dispersed, distributed, mixing up many collectives, playing among boundary objects whether they know it or not.


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  • Hogness, R. & Haraway, D. 2013. Compost Manifesto for Children of Compost. Personal communication. 6 Oct.
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  • King, K. 2012. Among transcontextual feminisms we grow boundary objects. Paper for “An Ecology of Ideas,” a joint conference of the American Society for Cybernetics and the Bateson Idea Group, Asilomar, California, 11 July. http://femcontext.blogspot.com  
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"Agential Cuttings" a sympoesis companioning Barad's careful work with agential realism. "Compost" in preference to posthuman: wording gifted by science writer Rusten Hogness to conversations among and for "children of compost." Hogness seriously jokes that the only allowable "post" for ecoactivisms should be compost! Such a composite or mixture, a bringing together, fosters sf futures, speculative feminist gatherings. This compost, with its nutrients feeding sympoetic connections concerned with an overpopulated planet, also draws upon conversations with Vinciane Despret, Donna Haraway, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa and others. Such agential cuttings entangle responsibilities entailed by this preference for compost to posthuman and poly-parenting to procreating. They imagine ahead earth-wide impacts on multi-species flourishing in commitments made by new generations to share among the children of compost rather than give birth themselves. Hogness, R, & Haraway, D. 2013 6 Oct. See also rusthog website: http://rusthog.weebly.com 


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Image credits

•rock&fiber image: http://www.etsy.com/listing/41174388/fiber-art-jellyfish-embroidery-on-hand
•ngram: http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=new+materialism%2Contological+turn%2Cboundary+object&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=
•patrick vincent stigmergic lawrence arts center: http://lawrenceartscenter.org/patrick-vincent-stigmergic/
swarm intelligence graphic: http://wiki.cas-group.net/index.php?title=File:SwarmIntelligence.png
•cosmic: http://www.lynnrandolph.com
•cloud inside restructuring: http://teriyamada.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/images1.jpg
•spider web: http://www.mhealth360.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/orb-spider-web.jpg
•plankton: http://blog.aquanerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Phytoplankton.jpg
•shadows: http://www.catalinzima.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/7_shadows_blured_attenuated.png
•rutherford the moon: http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/12211251_the-moon-erica-rutherford-etching-1998  ; Erica Rutherford (Scottish/Canadian, 1923-2008). Signed etching, #4 of 4 copies. Image measures 5 7/8” tall, 9” wide (14.9 x 22.9 cm).
•estrogen receptor: http://www.bronaldo.it/master_4.html
•wetlands & estrogene pic: http://www.cesam.ua.pt/index.php?tabela=pessoaldetail&menu=80&user=484
•collective self: http://www.collectiveself.com/self-organizing-groups2/leadership-and-self-organizing-groups/leadership-in-and-near-the-april-2011-seattle-glee-flash-mob/
•MIT System course: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/engineering-systems-division/esd-342-network-representations-of-complex-engineering-systems-spring-2010/

•cuttings & compost: google from compost:

http://www.sheknows.com/living/articles/806069/compost-gardening-guide
http://rockvilleunitedchurch.org/our-history-and-organization/some-moments-grace
http://learninghousejaipur.wordpress.com/category/summer-activities/
http://emissiontestwa.com/e_test/Recycle/default.aspx
http://www.comunedicastro.it/una-compostiera-per-tutti/
http://ourfairfieldhomeandgarden.com/diy-project-vermicomposting-in-a-tub-in-a-few-easy-steps/
http://www.compost-bin.org/my-marvellous-compost-bin-video/
http://www.addorganicgardening.com/compost/

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Katie's talksites gathered here: http://www.pinterest.com/katkingumd/talksites/

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Among the feminist reasons we all need to grow boundary objects and to learn the languages and knowledges of complex systems today, stigmergy among them, consider Naomi Klein’s recent article in New Statesman, 29 Oct 2013: http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/10/science-says-revolt

Klein describes: “Brad Werner…the geophysicist from the University of California, San Diego walked the crowd through the advanced computer model he was using to answer that question. He talked about system boundaries, perturbations, dissipation, attractors, bifurcations and a whole bunch
of other stuff largely incomprehensible to those of us uninitiated in complex systems theory. But the bottom line was clear enough: global capitalism has made the depletion of resources so rapid,
convenient and barrier-free that “earth-human systems” are becoming dangerously unstable in response…. Serious scientific gatherings don’t usually feature calls for mass political resistance, much less direct action and sabotage. But then again, Werner wasn’t exactly calling for those things. He was merely observing that mass uprisings of people – along the lines of the abolition movement, the civil rights movement or Occupy Wall Street – represent the likeliest source of “friction” to slow down an economic machine that is careening out of control. We know that past social movements have “had tremendous influence on . . . how the dominant culture evolved”, he pointed out. So it stands to reason that, “if we’re thinking about the future of the earth, and the future of our coupling to the environment, we have to include resistance as part of that dynamics”. And that, Werner argued, is not a matter of opinion, but “really a geophysics problem”.”


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Bruno Latour will be offering a MOOC. Go here to find out more: https://www.france-universite-numerique-mooc.fr/courses/SciencesPo/05004/Trimestre_1_2014/about



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Just sighted/sited on the Web: http://knowledgeinfrastructures.org


"This report lays groundwork for a new approach to understanding the massive transformations currently underway in how people create, share, and dispute knowledge. We explore some of the major questions that need to be addressed if these changes are to reach their full potential, and the types of inquiries they will require. We seek to inspire new ways of thinking around issues that have been obscured by older approaches and assumptions – some of them in the process of being undermined and remade by the very forces described here. Our report is at the same time a manifesto and an unfinished agenda, a statement and a provocation we hope will inspire others to further investigation."



"...knowledge infrastructures include individuals, organizations, routines, shared norms, and practices.

"Key to the infrastructure perspective is their modular, multi-layered, rough-cut character. Infrastructures are not systems, in the sense of fully coherent, deliberately engineered, end-to-end processes. Rather, infrastructures are ecologies or complex adaptive systems; they consist of numerous systems, each with unique origins and goals, which are made to inter-operate by means of standards, socket layers, social practices, norms, and individual behaviors that smooth out the connections among them. This adaptive process is continuous, as individual elements change and new ones are introduced — and it is not necessarily always successful. The current situation for knowledge infrastructures is characterized by rapid change in existing systems and introduction of new ones, resulting in severe strains on those elements with the greatest inertia." (13)
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