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<p>Now available for ordering and/or free download…<br>
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<b>Out of the Clear</b><br>
Erin Manning<br>
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Out of the Clear begins with the question of the clearing: What
operations are at work when land is cleared, or thought is
cleared, of all that grows wild? Clearing, the settler-colonial
act of defining a territory and producing a border, clears the
world of the thickets of all that is already at work. Get rid of
the muddle. Privilege productivity. This devaluing operation is
taken for granted as the necessary operation for all beginnings.
Clear the movement-tendencies before you start dancing. Clear the
thought-wanderings before you start writing. Clearing’s best
accomplice is method. A clear site is one that can be overseen,
that can be managed. The resounding image of the clearing in Out
of the Clear is the residential school for the forced internment
of first nations peoples, the sites always barren, empty of any
tangle.<br>
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The motif of the clearing weaves through Out of the Clear, a book
written in the first year of the 3Ecologies project’s land-based
site. In the mode of speculative pragmatism, the book explores
what modalities of perspective emerge in the uneasy middling of
non-dogmatic approaches to the speculative gardens of our
affective surrounds. The impersonal leads in this exploration of
what kind of minor sociality might emerge at the interstices of
more-than human inclinations.<br>
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“To write about the clearing – this sprawling field crowded with
the haunting absences of felled trees, genocide, and bodies
flattened by the worlding ritual of whiteness – Erin Manning
approaches an old growth maple forest with an unpretentious shack
and cabin. Fittingly this scene is the site of many troubles and
spillages: black geographies lush with noise, loss, and the
exquisite potential of new life that exceeds the colonial. A
sanctuary heralded by the gaping maw of the monster, this book is
a majestically unruly series of dramaturgical dispatches from the
cracks. A cartography of loss and surprise. Buttery breadcrumbs on
a trail of endarkenment. A geophilosophy on the alchemy of the
sweet and exquisite. A decolonial force majeure. Join these
awkward rehearsals at the liminal edges of monoculture. But be
warned: there is no stage left here. We are coming down to earth,
and we will not arrive intact.” – Báyò Akómoláfé, author of These
Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s
Search for Home<br>
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“A capaciously delightful composite of practical and intellectual
commitments to the proposition that an event is always an
encounter with already entangled beings striving to find new
conditions of livability. From wrangling with the effort of moving
sap to syrup to moving philosophies of abstraction to speculative
pragmatics, Manning fosters not merely new ways of thinking but
inspires alternate ways of being together differently.” –
Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and
Gender Studies at Columbia University <br>
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“The 3Ecologies project Manning muses on here consists of motley
practitioners generating transversal philosophical concepts from
within the collective attempt to live an anticapitalist life on
land three hours from Montreal. Unlike many previous off-the-grid
“returns” to “nature,” 3E engages blackness, indigeneity,
decolonization, neurodiversity, telecommunications, and
internationality as intrinsic dimensions of its communal work. The
Anthropocene might chain us towards the bleak assumption mere
survival of the century will already be a feat. Manning
demonstrates there is always more to life than that – provided new
vocabularies continue to be spun in the midst of what goes on.” –
Arun Saldanha, author of Psychedelic White: Goa Trance and the
Viscosity of Race<br>
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Bio: Erin Manning studies in the interstices of philosophy,
aesthetics and politics, concerned, always, about
alter-pedagogical and alter-economic practices. Recent monographs
include The Minor Gesture (2016) and For a Pragmatics of the
Useless (2020). 3e is the direction her current artistic research
takes – an exploration of the transversality of the three
ecologies, the social, the environmental and the conceptual. An
iteration of 3e is a land-based project north of Montreal where
living and learning is experimented. Legacies of SenseLab infuse
the project, particularly the question of how collectivity is
crafted in a more-than human encounter with worlds in the making.
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PDF available freely online:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1165">https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1165</a><br>
Ordering Information: Available direct from Minor Compositions
site.<br>
Release to the book trade March 2023<br>
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Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations
drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the
revolutions of everyday life.<br>
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236 pages, 4.25 x 7, paperback<br>
UK: £18 / US: $23<br>
IBSN 978-1-57027-405-3<br>
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