Live like a river. Civilization and schismogenesis

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Brian Holmes
maxi Gonnet

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This paper seeks to explore collective ways to dissolve what I call hydrological States, that is, the dominant forms of governance of watersheds configured according to the keys of industrial modernism and its extractivist policies. The challenge is to imagine transnational civilizational options to design ecological States without generating violent reactions. To this end, this paper studies two singular cases: the collapse of the Elwha River hydroelectric dam under the leadership of the Klallam tribe, in the USA, and the actions carried out by the transnational network Humedales sin fronteras in the South America. In both, the political relevance of identification with other non-humans is highlighted, as well as the increasingly important role of indigenous thinking.

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Holmes, B. (2022). Live like a river. Civilization and schismogenesis (maxi Gonnet , Trans.). Heterotopías, 5(10), 128-142. https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/heterotopias/article/view/39765
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Brian Holmes, Independent literary critic. Activist

Brian Holmes is an art critic and activist. He primarily researches the intersections of artistic and political practice with a special emphasis on political ecology. He completed his PhD in Romance Languages and Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He was English editor of publications for documenta X in 1997 and a member of the activist group Ne Pas Plier (Do Not Bend) from 1999 to 2001. He helped create the groups Deep Time Chicago (hppts://deeptimechicago.org) and Compass (https://midwestcompass.org). In Argentina he collaborates with Casa Rio (www.casariolab.art) with cartographic practices contributing to the Wetlands Without Borders program in the project to preserve the biodiversity of the La Plata Basin. His projects cross art, science, philosophy and activism and can be seen at https://ecotopia.today and https://brianholmes.wordpress.com/.

Email: bhcontinentaldrift@gmail.com

maxi Gonnet, Freelance translator

B.A. in philosophy from the National University of Córdoba. He translates books and articles from German, English and French, with special emphasis on critical theory, aesthetics, contemporary art, visual studies, media archeology, etc.

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Holmes, B. (2022). Live like a river. Civilization and schismogenesis (maxi Gonnet , Trans.). Heterotopías, 5(10), 128-142. https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/heterotopias/article/view/39765

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