On the Educative Potential of Reservoir Bats: Practices of Response-Ability for the Chthulucene

ABSTRACT. Arguably, ‘we’ (or at least those who take hearing for granted) are attending to the world more sensitively through sound, becoming more aware of its presence and absence: becoming more bat-like. Perhaps bats have propelled into existence new sonic-relationships for humans and are encouraging us to attend more closely to the becoming sonic-world. Might they be asking us to finally listen/see/feel/note more keenly that which is right in front of us? pp. 16–22

Keywords: bats; Australian bushfires; Haraway; string figures; Anthropocene; intrusion of Gaia

doi:10.22381/KC8220203