INFUSE.
— Portal · one of seven INFUSE thresholds —

The The Living.

— The widest word, the most discreet. What asks to be neither killed nor manufactured. —

Portal vii· 5 signature pieces· 6 tributary clusters· 35 plants
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— Portal manifesto —

What the Living
is, for us.

The living is not nature. The living is not biology. The living is a mode of existence recognised by this: it asks to be neither killed nor manufactured.

A plant is alive. A soil is alive. A friendship is alive. A language is alive. INFUSE tries to think, to write, to cook, to care — on the side of the living. Not from sentimentality. From fidelity.

This portal gathers what crosses our six other portals: soils, plants, animals, commons, landscapes, languages. The living is what binds them.

Signature pieces.

— the five doors of the portal —
i.
Pillar · 26 min

Living, a working definition.

INFUSE synthesis of what we call "the living" — beyond the culture / nature opposition.

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ii.
Cosmology · 18 min

Is the earth alive?

Lovelock, Margulis, the Mapuche, Bruno Latour. Five cosmologies, one question.

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iii.
Plant · 11 min

Mycelium, the underground network.

What forests know — and what science is only beginning to measure. Reading Suzanne Simard.

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iv.
Practice · 8 min

Learning to read a soil.

Three gestures, two signs, one hour outside. How to tell whether a soil is alive or merely present.

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v.
Lineage · 20 min

The farmer-poets.

From Henry Beston to Wendell Berry. A literary lineage that thinks the living from the workbench.

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— Cosmology · three open questions —

Three questions we do not
close.

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

ii
— Does the living speak? And if it does, in what tongue?
19 sources · 6 lineages Read the cosmology →
iii
— What do we owe the living we kill in order to live?
11 sources · ethical question Read the cosmology →