What a Mountain Sees that a Telescope Cannot
Uncategorized“E pur si muove…” The telescope plays yet another vexed starring role at the turning of the tide: at a time when political sympathies seem divided between science’s stentorian and urgent call for the industrial world to stop abus...
Rupture of the Rupture: Vunja
UncategorizedThe Emergence Network embarked on a project called ‘Vunja’ this year – hoping to weave together an ambitious project of festivals around the theme of decoloniality and new worlds. Vunja is about opening up other places of power, es...
The Wolf Tone
Uncategorizedapophasis (n.) when one can only describe something by stating which characteristics it does not have (such as nonviolence) — especially because human thought or language remains insufficient to describe it fully or accurately (such as...
What Climate Collapse Asks of Us
Writingsby Bayo Akomolafe, PhD In this (very) long essay, Bayo Akomolafe investigates the work and contributions of “postactivism” in our unique times by thinking about the nature of science and its products, climate change, the myriad organ...
Courting the Other/wise
Writingsby Toni Spencer, Lead Curator of ‘Vulture’ “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” – Simone Weil The Emergence Network’s exploratory on-line course, Vulture, is well underway. Our work is fed by two core and intima...
Kebradas UniDiversity
WritingsNew Places of Learning and Power in Brazil Written by Giselle Paulino Art by Suélen Brito In the last year, I have been immersed in an innovative adventure of exploring new forms of intelligence and power existing within unimagined spac...
A Politics of Possibilities
WritingsThe Gift of Bewilderment Our story stretches all the way back to that mythical, archetypal encounter between a man and a God. In the Judeo-Christian texts, the book of Job records a tale of sorrow and mourning and haunting questions abou...
Who We Are
WritingsThe Emergence Network is an earth-wide collective of curators and a network of performances, projects, provocations, explorations, conversations and radical inquiries into the frameworks that govern our orthodox modes of responding to cr...