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January 12, 2022
Bruce Alan Mcconachie

Popular Media Review: ‘Don’t Look Up’ and ‘Greenland’ – a Member’s View

In this post, Bruce McConachie reviews the recent, much discussed film 'Don't Look Up' and the less known 2020 film 'Greenland'.

collapse, popular media

Nowhere to go but on

A film poem The poem is a Cento, a traditional form in which a new poem is made by splicing together lines from published poems. It was created quickly, I didn’t give myself time to work out the meanings of the source poems, but skimmed through them and picked out the lines that...

poetry

Dreaming at the End of Time

In this post, Kristopher Drummond reflects on the power of dreams to guide us into the unknown lying ahead.

collapse, consciousness, Deep adaptation dreamwork, dreams, resilience

December 26, 2021
Alan Heeks

How Deep Nature helps Deep Adaptation

In this blog, Alan Heeks reflects on the ways in which immersion in nature can help us deeply adapt.

nature immersion

Gone: One Beautiful Bird

by Trebbe Johnson The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently proposed removing 23 species of animals and plants from the Endangered Species List. Occasionally there are species, such as the Gray Wolf and the Northern Brown Kiwi, that are removed from this list because their populations have...

biodiversity, climate grief, extinction, Remembrance Day for Lost Species

December 14, 2021
Bruce Alan Mcconachie

Deep Adaptation in Popular Media: Beatriz, Melodrama, and Capitalism

In this post, Bruce McConachie looks at the way in which the film 'Beatriz at Dinner' portrays the conflict between capitalism and nature.

films, popular media

November 25, 2021
Nancy N. Sidhu

Fish, by Nancy N. Sidhu

The other morning I noticed a fish in my garden.I thought, what was a 3-foot-long dead fish doing among the bushes and trees?But he wasn’t dead.He was looking around. I am sure gills work only in water, but somehow he breathed.His silvery scales shone bluish and pinkish in the sun.He was...

poetry

Weaving new connections as we journey together, locally and globally

Between October 21 and 27, 2021, an experimental multi-local event took place, online and in several places around the world: the Deep Live Gathering. Initiated and organised by a team of DAF volunteers, this event involved gatherings convened in-person, as well as online workshops and spaces...

Community, Deep Live Gathering, in-person meetings

November 22, 2021
Bruce Alan Mcconachie

Deep Adaptation in Popular Media

by Bruce McConachie I’ve been teaching and writing about the intersections of popular culture and social-political norms for most of my professional life. Although my publications on rituals, plays, and films have sparked some progressive insights and actions, I now believe that a blog can be...

media

Can you hear the land yet? By Kristy Johnnson

In this post, ecotherapist Kristy Johnnson reflects on the strange silence that characterises our relationships with the land and the more-than-human.