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.
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.
Anthropomorphic or biopomorphic.. it’s the reverse of anthropomorphism.. or animsim what is the reverse of animsim, rather than bestow, receive..
ok, we’re connected, we’re in relationship and all of this is happening at the same time… it became very clear to me that what it takes to have a different relationship to the ocean, to have a different relationship across species is exactly unlearning those same interlocking forms of oppression that Kambahe River Collective name “black feminist”.
IUCN list these specise of bird as critically endangered. You will never see some of them, the Jamaican Petrel has not been seen for 40 years.
Torre Abbey at 7.6 meters above sea level in 2022, 7.964 metres above sea level 2025.
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