Post #3742504

2026-07-11 13:39 UTC

“… Instead of hypothesizing more metaphorical gadgets, adding further accessories to a crane's or a salmon's interior array of tools, what if we were to allow that the animal's migratory skill arises from a felt rapport between its body and the breathing Earth? That a crane's two-thousand-mile journey across the span of a continent is propelled by the felt unison between its flexing muscles and the sensitive flesh of this planet (this huge curved expanse, roiling with air currents and rippling with electromagnetic pulses), and so is enacted as much by Earth's vitality as by the bird that flies within it?” […] 1/

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@ira@beige.party 2026-07-11 13:40

“What is this dynamic alliance between an animal and the animate orb that gives it breath? What seasonal tensions and relaxations in the atmosphere, what subtle torsions in the geosphere help to draw half a million cranes so precisely across the continent? What rolling sequence or succession of blossomings helps summon these millions of butterflies across the belly of the land? What alterations in the olfactory medium, what bursts of solar exuberance through the magnetosphere, what attractions and repulsions, and on and on? For surely, really and truly, these migrating creatures are not taking readings from technical instruments or mathematically calculating angles; they are riding waves of sensation, responding attentively to allurements and gestures in the topological manifold, reverberating subtle expressions that reach them from afar. These beings are dancing not with themselves but with the animate rondure of the Earth, their wider flesh!” […] 2/

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