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What if humans acted with nature, not on it? What would farming look like if we stopped trying to master and dominate the environment? According to Andrew Pickering, the no-plowing, no-weeding form of farming developed by Masanobu Fukuoka is a shining example of poiesis, an acting-with that attunes human activity to the propensities of natural phenomena.
Andrew Pickering, Acting with the World: Agency in the Anthropocene Duke University Press, 2025
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What if humans acted with nature, not on it? What would farming look like if we stopped trying to master and dominate the environment? According to Andrew Pickering, the no-plowing, no-weeding form of farming developed by Masanobu Fukuoka is a shining example of poiesis, an acting-with that attunes human activity to the propensities of natural phenomena.
Andrew Pickering, Acting with the World: Agency in the Anthropocene Duke University Press, 2025
The post Acting with the World appeared first on KPFA.

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