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David Abram, cultural ecologist and philosopher, is the author of The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World (Pantheon 1996), for which he received the Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction. An accomplished sleight-of-hand magician who has lived with indigenous sorcerers in Indonesia, Nepal, and the Americas, his essays have appeared in such journals as Tikkun, Orion, Environmental Ethics, Wild Earth, Parabola, Resurgence, and The Ecologist, as well as in over 30 edited anthologies. Nomadic by nature, David lectures and teaches widely on several continents. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the Watson and Rockefeller foundations, and was named by the Utne Reader as one of a hundred visionaries currently transforming the world. David's work focuses upon the cultural causes and consequences of environmental disarray; upon the experiential effects of technological change; and upon the ecological phenomenology of perception and of language, the way in which these two dimensions modulate the ethical relation between humankind and the animate earth. He recently founded the Alliance for Wild Ethics in his home terrain of New Mexico; he maintains a passionate interest in interspecies communication and in the rejuvenation of oral culture.Link to Paper Abstract; Link to Article; Link to Interview |
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