Emergence Magazine Podcast Negative Love — Daisy Hildyard
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Aug 18, 2020 Daisy Hildyard explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated the unseen 'negative spaces' between humans, plants, and animals. She discusses how our lives intertwine with others, revealing the impact of avoidance on social dynamics. The conversations then shift to confronting extinction and the deep connections within ecosystems, illustrated through the plight of an ash tree. Hildyard reflects on shared suffering across species, advocating for a deeper understanding of life's interdependencies and the importance of listening and care.
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Negative Spaces Make Interconnection Visible
- COVID-19 made previously invisible 'negative spaces' — the interactions between bodies — widely perceptible.
- These spaces reveal how lives are constituted through relationships across species and scales.
Negative Acts Shape Other Lives
- Not-doing (negative acts) imprint our lives on others as powerfully as actions.
- Thinking negatively helps perceive how abstention shapes other people's lives and ecological conditions.
A Patient Finds Meaning Through Others
- Hildyard visits a hospice and interviews Anne, a patient reconciled with mortality who worries most about her children.
- Anne frames her life as meaningful through relationships and urges listening and gentleness from caregivers.
