[[Wilk, Elvia (2022) Death By Landscape]] **See:** 'The Second Body' by Daisy Hildyard. Hildyard describes the ecosystemic body as a second self or body that is influenced by the ecologies beyond the self. It breaks apart the mind/body dualism and emphasizes our porosity. Much like Arne Naess' concept of the [[Ecological Self]]. Other types of bodies or selves that we have include the public and the social. But only the ecosystem body is tethered, tethered to the landscape and the species we share it with. We may be able to make new friends, new social or public facing lives, but we can never make a new world. We are interdependent with our ecosystems. Climate change makes us not only interdependent with our local ecosystem but with all planetary systems. [[The Two Body Problem]] >'Instead, rooting oneself and learning to become part of the landscape could be seen as a ferocious claim to life.' - Elvia Wilk [[Wilk, Elvia (2022) Death By Landscape]] [[Personhood]] >'When the self recognizes its boundaries, it has to reckon with them.' - Elvia Wilk *Or I would say, it has to also reckon with the lack of them as we are porous beings who boundaries aren't always as clear as we like to believe they are. ## Sources: - [[Wilk, Elvia (2022) Death By Landscape]] - [[Self-Realizing System]] - [[Matthews, Freya (2021) The Ecological Self]] - [[@Arne Naess]] - [[Ecological Self]]