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  • 007Habitability

    This course considers the notion of habitability through various prisms—geochemical, biological, political, and social conditions. What might “habitability” look like if the emphasis were on shared wellbeing, as opposed to just survival? The first pathway, from research collective LiCo, offers a critique of the modernist inhabitation of the world and the forms of knowledge production that shore it up. The authors ask whether habitability in the Anthropocene requires not the building up of more knowledge, but rather the relinquishing, forgetting, or disinheriting of knowledge that no longer serves. In the next pathway, Fernando Silva e Silva looks to Indigenous thinkers and ways of being for the alternative, more generative, modes of inhabiting that we need. Finally, Stephanie Wakefield’s pathway looks at political notions of “resilience”—and the limits to it—in an increasingly precarious, uninhabitable world.