Vol. 8 (2022): post(s)
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Reading and Writing the Living Soil

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  • Lucas Andino,
  • Juan Mateo Espinosa
Lucas Andino
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Juan Mateo Espinosa
University of Washington Seattle
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/posts.v8i8.2690

Published 2022-12-15

Keywords

  • soil,
  • chromatography,
  • poetry,
  • agriculture

How to Cite

Andino, L., & Espinosa, J. M. (2022). Reading and Writing the Living Soil. Post(s), 8(1), 80–105. https://doi.org/10.18272/posts.v8i8.2690

Copyright (c) 2022 Lucas Andino, Juan Mateo Espinosa

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Abstract

Can the soil speak? In an attempt to respond to this question, this article discusses a political and practical horizon that intends to transform relationships within the living soil. It presents a renewed method for photographing the soil: chromatography. Besides producing detailed descriptions of our own chromatograms, we also venture into an aesthetic reading of them. The result is a series of poems that might make explicit another layer of the voice of the soil.




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