This habit of Nature NGOs to use weasel-words to get their way makes my blood boil.
Back in 2016, at 'Artists, Farmers, & Philosophers' in Barnard Castle, Dr Paul Knights called this "farming" venture out as having an agenda from the start. And so it proves.
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Open now! Come to an exhibition of work by artist Maria Rud At the Dundee Rep Theatre & Cafe. Her beautiful work looks AMAZING in spaces all over the Theatre. This unique exhibit is part of The Revelations of Rab McVie show, Thu 20 – Fri 21 Mar!
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REVELATIONS OF RAB McVIE at DUNDEE REP
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QuintessentialReview '23:
"Shades of war mingle with ghouls of gentrification, spectres of capitalism tangle with biblical imagery, and through it all Rab hunts the door to the waking world."
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Philosophers who use him have to address the Heidegger-issue openly. He got caught up in the Nazi dream.
Again, the rural grassroots is a pawn in a big geopolitical brawl.
(My rural radicalism goes back to the #Wesleyanism of my Great Granddad, cobbler and preacher in Dufton, Westmorland.)
Heidegger was a signed up actual Nazi for a time so those who adopt him can hardly virtue signal. Celebrations of rural rootedness have served the far-right well over the decades. Part of my purpose is to show that the left has something to offer the rural grassroots too. 2/3
#LocalKnowledge
#Twitter #Heidegger
I've yet to fall for bluesky in the way I did for twitter. All too safe, soft-left, and echo-chambery. Being rather more left, but advocating on behalf of a largely Tory voting rural grassroots, I still feel at home on twitter. 1/3
Announcing the Ida Højlund Rasmussen as the winner of for the article “Multispecies stories of Vardø: an Arctic place in change”. This is such a wonderful example of landscape research.
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My work on #LocalKnowledge is to restore the respect that is due to those who work the land, who engage with all its myriad dimensions over the course of a given day, year, decade.
As I said to a school assembly once, farmers are professors of the countryside.
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My role is to keep the dykes immaculate and #stormeowyn had taken a bite here and there.
Late #Heidegger looks at ways of 'being-in-the-world' that suffer not the alienations of the human/nature binary. For H, 'dwelling' on earth as a farmer embodies a grasp of nature that science has forgotten.2/?
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#Heidegger
At the end of a side road off a side road, amongst bleak moorland and pasture, a little idyll emerges, the farm of one of my clients. Her great-grandfather planted trees and had many dykes built such that here in 2025, a truly magical locale is the result. 1/?
Large trapezoidal shaped standing stone with small cairn like scatter at its base. Stands in flat interior of larger monument, surface of flat winter scorched grass extends beyond to large circular bank. Upon bank grow large leafless trees, silhouetted against cloudy sky.
Mayburgh Henge
A solitary survivor of what is thought to have been four standing stones in the interior of this remarkable monument. It's massive enclosing bank was probably largely taken from the near by river ‐ 'Neolithic' terraforming of the wider landscape.
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Would pass it every day on the way to school. Such a level of ambition and vision to create on that scale.
#LocalKnowledge
#HeftedToHill
Back in 2018, I worked with photographers Louise Taylor and Richard Glynn on a project with hill farmers that led directly to my current research on the philosophy of local knowledge. The article begins "We had to chuckle."
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European philosophy has led us to believe that our experience takes place in our heads, courtesy of a mind which processes sensory perceptions of the world.
Both Dewey and Heidegger see this as a philosophical decapitation having monstrous consequences for the planet.
The philosopher. By me.
So looking forward to getting back into this incredible show especially at Dundee Rep- it’s going to fit great in there. thanks for the support @liamrudden.bsky.social
The ancient, bearing, outlined by Ancient Greeks, understands the world as 'Physis',(foo-sis) a dynamic reality forever in flux with which we engage practically in experience. Knowledge for this bearing is more a dancing-along with Physis, in step with its processes.
The hill farmer farms Physis.
#LocalKnowledge
#Heidegger
In Being & Time, Heidegger describes 2 bearings we have towards the world, one modern(since Descartes) and one ancient. The modern, scientific bearing, gives us 'Nature', a realm of objective entities from which we stand apart and spectate upon. 1/2
🆕 Continuing our series of Digital Leads Network member Q&As, David Scurr chatted to Alice Kershaw from @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social about her collaborative approach to driving #digital transformation.
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It is, up in the headwaters of the Water of Leith. There intriguing linear mounds that traverse the landscape here, marked on old maps as Old Fences. The bit you helped with was on one.
Heidegger declares that the type of knowing typical of hill farmers is primordial, that science is derivative of it. While science installs the subject-object binary to make its gains, the engaged knowledge of landwork defies that binary so as to cope with the dynamic reality of the everyday. 2/2
Not only is this where I'm walling just now, it's where my main PhD case study on "local knowledge" is based. The knowledge held by those that work this expanse of land, knowledge about all manner of things, is unique to them and rich in relevance to environmental policy action 1/2
Applied users of ecological science likely have suspected this reality, as ecology retreats from fieldwork and experimentation into modelling this becomes more serious, models should aid understanding, are they now the product.
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Thanks, I'll check that out.
Yes the 'merely anecdotal' dismissal is the thing needing undermined, philosophically.
If you're interested in the philosophy side of this, then @michelamassimi.bsky.social is red hot on it. I've only just come across her work this year and thoroughly recommend.
My walling attire for this latest job, high up on the Lang Whang. This old coat is my beloved line of defence against the Siberian gusts.
Good news. £2.9m awarded to Green Action Trust Scotland to support the rejuvenation of the Leven valley into an accessible and biodiverse park that brings Levenmouth’s social and economic heritage to life. www.heritagefund.org.uk/news/fifes-r...
I do so to help policy-makers understand this 'local knowledge' of which they now speak. More decisive though is to help empower those who possess such knowledge to insist upon their rightful place at the decision-making table, irrespective of any formal qualifications they may or may not possess.
I'm going to start posting about my work on the philosophical horizons of local knowledge. My UK case studies include hill farmers and crofters. #Heidegger and #Dewey are the key philosophers for grounding this work. I hope you'll enjoy. #LocalKnowledge #FieldPhilosophy #GrassrootsOntology
