About

I am a researcher, academic, teacher and adventurer. I am interested in the way in which our ideas about reality, meet up with that reality, how we create knowledge with our bodies, and without them, and the difference between these sets of knowledges. And where they overlap. I am fascinated by the architecture of the natural world, the microcosms and details that we move through, that we find beneath our feet and over our heads. Some examples of questions that drive my various interests are:

• What makes the national feel personal?
• In what ways does the material world that is available to us, act as an extension of our internal selves, and in what ways does the material world enact itself, apart from humans? 
• In what ways does the material provoke a sense of place?
• What social formations exist around political nostalgia?
• When landscape becomes the cultural expression of political will, what happens to the land itself? (i.e. DAPL, Gulf oil spill, etc)
• Were which hunts during the Swiss Reformation a form of the social control of women? Of outsiders?
• What is Heimat?
• Can bodies overcome temporality through memory?
• Does a society need an origin story populated by myths?
• What does it mean to dwell?
• Can a tree speak?

Knowledge can circulate in formations, like "history" or "dance" or "geometry", but what if we were able to break apart these catalogues? I am not looking for chaos, but a new way to understand. I don't care for heroes, and even less do I care for saints. Its the sweaty, hard working and boisterous I am after. Or the dead. There is knowledge to be found and to be created, from the moment we wake up. From the moment we slip out of our slumber and push ourselves into the dust of the world. We can choose, I believe, to use our desire for entertainment to aim at this purpose of creativity, creation of ethical knowledge based on seeking the best evidence we can, so rather than waste our desire for creativity in passive pleasure seeking, absorbing ourselves in active pleasure. Pleasure of our minds, our bodies, complicated entanglements, the planet's wonders and each other. Time is of the essence.