“Earthly life is, at its fundament, symbiotic—a heaving, humming, sporulating, quaking flood of co-dependence seeping through every scale and species...Healthy futures demand healthy soil, and soil must be at the center of any vision for equitable, harmonious, and flourishing Earth futures.”
DIRTY HORIZONS: A QUEER COSMOGENY OF SOIL
Commissioned by Art + Australia for Radical Notes, Dirty Horizons builds on research into soil futures to reevaluate the intricate interdependence within Earth's foundation, and challenge the idealogical binary of dirt and soil. Proposing new speculative definitions for soil, the text emphasises soil's irreplaceable role in all terrestrial ecosystems, addressing the neglect and degradation of ‘earth’s miracle skin’ on which all planetary well-being depends. Using a queer ecological approach, the article advocates for recognising soil's inherently transformative and resistant nature. It underscores the importance of soil-centered futures that prioritise regenerative, collaborative, and transformative soil relations, emphasising the urgent need to approach the planetary commons care-fully, acknowledging that practices of humility are necessary to bridge from humus, to humans, and our collective horizons that lay ahead.
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