Category: Ilse Meijer
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Towards a Decolonial Ecology
Indigenous Conceptualizations of, and Cosmological Relationships to, the Natural World Like Creation stories everywhere, cosmologies are a source of identity and orientation to the world. We are inevitably shaped by them no matter how distant they may be from our consciousness. One story leads to the generous embrace of the living world, the other to…
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Philosopher Abroad: Philosophies of Life
In Luang Prabang, Laos, I first learned that the word philosophy does not have a universal meaning. I was in Luang Prabang for an internship for about five weeks in 2019. During this time I regularly visited a center where travelers, expats and English-speakers went to speak with young locals. The purpose of the center…
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The Becoming of Art: A Cocreative Process
Introduction One of the most unexpected but gravest pains I have perhaps experienced in this lifetime thus far is when a piece of music got, according to me, violently interrupted by applause. The musical performance consisted of a group of people playing large drums. The deep drumming sounds drilled through my bones, and when the…