INFUSE.
— Portal · one of seven INFUSE thresholds —

The Bond.

— With plants, with the dead, with neighbours. Weaving what is only visible by the light of long fires. —

Portal v· 5 signature pieces· 4 tributary clusters· 12 plants
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— Portal manifesto —

What the Bond
is, for us.

A bond is not a network. The network is wide and cold. The bond is narrow and warm. The bond is chosen, is held, is mended.

With plants, with the dead, with neighbours, with the strangers in the street — INFUSE thinks the bond is the basic unit of a standing life. Not the individual. Not the abstract community. The bond.

This portal gathers what we write on long friendship, on neighbourhood, on ancestors, on plant-companionships, and on politeness paid to the invisible.

Signature pieces.

— the five doors of the portal —
i.
Pillar · 20 min

Friendship is not optional.

Why without friends, we die — not symbolically, biologically. Reading the longitudinal cohorts and Cicero, side by side.

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ii.
Lineage · 15 min

Speaking to the dead, without superstition.

Mexican, Japanese, African, European practices. What dialogue with the dead teaches the living.

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iii.
Plant · 8 min

Linden, the tree of village squares.

Why a linden was planted on the square, and what its disappearance did to our commons.

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iv.
Practice · 11 min

The art of welcoming at table.

Four rules of a hospitality money cannot buy. The table as the first common ground.

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v.
Cosmology · 24 min

What is a neighbour?

From Leviticus to Olivier Razemon. Why the neighbour is neither friend nor stranger, and why this matters.

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— Cosmology · three open questions —

Three questions we do not
close.

— to bring you to depth, without answering for you —