David Abram’s Becoming Animal invites us to inhabit a sensate, earthly cosmology: sniffing, touching, prowling, taste-budding our way towards remembrance of our creatureliness. We are but one sibling in a familial web of relationships, called to practice a literacy of landscape beyond the text. Words, even these very words, are for Abram a mental apparition that dissociate us from place, from body, from our embeddedness in the more-than-human world. 

This study will walk us to the edge of our sensorial comfort zone, where we’ll explore what it’s like to be a turtle or an elephant or a bird of prey … the inhabitants of the Smithsonian zoo await!

Text: David Abram’s Becoming Animal

Date: Sunday, November 8 at 1pm

Location: Smithsonian National Zoological Park in DC with Josh & Kanika

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