David Harbott

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biotic realism

Winter thought

/ / biotic realism, biotic subject, drawing

Biotic Realism

Wild Clump 1. At Harbourne Head. 26th May 2021. Charcoal on paper. 148x210mm

Adjacent to Capitalist Realism of Mark Fisher, Biotic Realism is a form of analysis and knowledge making that places the bioloical real at the heart of thought and politics. ‘Biological determinism’ seems to me an invention of the humanities, a means to beat the veracity and complexity of biolgy and systesm view of life, and thus remain in poll position in discourse on politics.

Biological realism takes up where biopolitics (Foucault) left off.

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Meta-realism

/ / biotic realism, drawing, thinking aloud

Unmade phenotypes

Something gained from being curious about phenotype-genotype interaction. Imagining many unmade organisms from futures that are the would-have-been-nows that did not happen. This present being a single of many possible. This life form above also being one of many possible.

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