in defense of the more than human (and all that we learn from them)
David Abram coined the term " more-than-huma n” in the late 1990s to “to indicate…that the human world is necessarily embedded within, permeated by, and indeed dependent upon the more-than-human world that exceeds it. With this framing, the rich and complex world beyond “the human” is uplifted and given further agency. In shifting how we view our fellow inhabitants of the earth, there is hope to encourage humility and create deeper awareness for the web of life on earth. Humans have created cascading and immeasurable damages to the earth through processes of industrialization. The San Francisco bayfront is one of the many landscapes that has been exploited, extracted, and adulterated in the name of human production and capital development. The overdeveloped and extracted landscapes of industry were created with hubris. Many would call our current era, shaped by human-caused environmental damages “The Anthropocene.” Abram critiques this term, claiming that it “asserts hum...
