Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet – David Abram
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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The Magic of Animal Migration
The long-range migrations of other animals can only be a conundrum. A puzzle will strive to solve by continually compounding various internal technologies that might somehow, in combination, grant a particular creature the power to grapple its way across the world. Instead of hypothesizing more metaphorical gadgets, what if we were to allow that the animal's migratory skill arises from a felt rapport between its body and the breathing earth? Such a conception need not contradict any of the accepted evidence gathered from a century's research into the enigmas of animal migration. It simply offers a new way of interpreting and integrating those various discoveries.
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