Hackable Animal - Ramsey, Ian

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Résumé :
Traveling from the Peruvian Amazon to Beijing, from the Siberian tundra to Oaxacan villages, Ian Ramsey's Hackable Animal explores the metaphysical dimensions of being human amongst the disruptions of the 21st century. This profound collection reads like a scouting report from across the planet, where polar bears, reggaeton, and woolly mammoths collide with cloud computing and wildfires, where assumptions and alignments are turned upside down until we finally emerge, ready to rummage a new credo. These fierce poems, grounded in ecology, deep time, and paleolithic heritage, lean into the strafing ultimatums of rapidly changing climate, globalization, and technology, asking how we might chase beauty in the newsfeed of tragedy and reimagine our relationship to the Earth....

Biographie:
Ian Ramsey is a writer, educator and wilderness athlete based in Maine, where he directs the Kauffmann Program for Environmental Writing and Wilderness Exploration. His work has appeared in Terrain.org, High Desert Journal, and many other publications. Ian frequently leads expeditions and collaborates with climate scientists around North America and on other continents. He is a founding board member of Physiology First, a non-profit that gives cutting-edge tools to teens, families and educators to improve mental health and performance. In addition to teaching environmental topics, he teaches brain science, music and entrepreneurship for creatives. For more information, go to www.ianramsey.net