Our mundane activity - living & working, caring & labouring - routinely places and produces material bodies - humans, plants, animals, inanimate stuff - where they may be of use to some person (materially, culturally, affectively). This is a landscape of the de facto placement & action of stuff: the sphere of fiat, of material **forms**..
Animate and inanimate stuff - weather, ecosystems, microbiomes, thermodynamic systems - places itself wherever it does, and does whatever it does, without regard for the needs of persons . . and is very powerful. Algorithm-powered material systems are hugely powerful too, and increasingly autonomous. We weave this fabric of people and stuff as well as we can, its threads are everyday mundane practices, somewhere in the mesh of society.
# Anthropocentrism Anthropocentrism is a trap awaiting here. We need to take a lot of care with this - largely in Organising a real economy - and not try to write a philosophy book about it. Wild nature, domestic (hubristic?) nature, 'the Golemic' (aka the digital), feral nature, prosthesis/symbiosis and the more-than-human - and all the diverse kinds of aesthetic relationship that we may have with these elements of the material world - all are in the weave there.
We do not intend to fall into the trap of extractivism and capitalist-modernist hubris. At the same time, we *do* mean to maintain a sense that the world of non-human materiality (and the world of human materiality, for that matter) operates as it does, without recognition or regard for humanity, or even for our animality. Material stuff does what its material organisation equips it to do - marvellously, generally mysteriously; always forcefully.
The stance we mean to take is one of humlity in relation to the powers of (self-)organised material stuff, no hubris here! But while animism appears within the span of pluriversal aesthetic relationships, it's not on the foprop agenda.
This is basically the materiality of ‘the economy’ - a material economy, a use-value economy: 'the real economy'; a care-taking and care-giving, living economy. Make no mistake, Organising a real economy . .
The material landscape §1
. . is thoroughly threaded through by, and animated by Work in emotional commons - Care work.
The aesthetic-affective landscape §3
The foprop frame is a materialist one: thus every landscape is 'material'. The cultural landscape of **formations**, and the aesthetic landscape in-here of affective and cognitive *rces*, are just as material as the landscape of material **forms** 'out-there'. To be clear, maybe we might tag this landscape as 'substantial'. But most of the time we can get by with 'material' to refer to the world of what objectively occurs because of the nature of stuff, with the proviso that other landscapes are prominently constituted by subjective and affective relations, in a way that the material landscape is not.
The material landscape is the basis of one of the zones of reach: Zone ¿2 - Here (subsistence work).
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Next: Cultural landscape - §2