Humans, Homo sapiens, humanity, we need no borders. Naturally. We evolved to walk wherever we liked. Together. In time.

The last few days, we've got to realize, we need #noborders

#science no borders #climateaction no borders #medicalaid no borders #migration no borders #labour no borders #care no borders #moon no borders #tides no borders #earth no borders #ocean no borders #life no borders #water no borders #health no borders #ritual no borders #morethanhuman no borders #nokings no borders #nomads no borders

Or maybe the way to say it is, no borders in space but in time (remembering the King of Time #VelimirKhlebnikov)

This comes from a lovely piece on Khlebnikov by our own Chris Knight:-
'Khlebnikov’s fundamental political position was that the world should have no borders. That was partly due to his upbringing: the camels and horses in the camp where he grew up were not interested in borders. Throughout his life, he remained committed to the nomadic values of the Kalmyk people.

'But, although Khlebnikov hated territorial borders, he loved the idea of borders in time. He did not want fences, customs posts and certainly not trenches (remember this is going on during World War I, when people were fighting for a few yards of squelching, blood-stained mud). But what about borders in time? When people sing together, they must all keep to the same beat and sing each note together. Synchronising the voice means being aware of borders in time. Once the whole planet is singing, the only borders will be in the dimension of time. Natural rhythms, such as human heartbeats, the sun, the moon and the tides, would be used to set up these borders. He considered it vital not to transgress borders in time - they were needed if the world’s inhabitants were to get on with one another. By contrast, borders in space were in his eyes just bloodshed and murder.'
https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1248/prophet-and-poet-of-russian-revolution/

#lunarchy
#flourishingdiversity
#HumanRevolution

Here is a list with all our Vimeo recordings for last term (Jan-Mar 2025)
Enjoy!

Perspectives on human origins: language, body art, hunting, architecture

Jan 14 Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis 'When Eve Laughed'
https://vimeo.com/1047955270

Jan 21 Camilla Power 'Neanderthals, Homo sapiens and the ‘Human Revolution’'
https://vimeo.com/1050011589

Jan 28 Annemieke Milks
'Hunting lessons: how forager kids learn(ed) to hunt'
https://vimeo.com/1053040279?share=copy

Feb 4 Paulina Michnowska 'Notes from the forest – storytelling with the Penan of Borneo'
https://vimeo.com/1055179553

Feb 11 Sasha Farnsworth 'Architecture meets anthropology: Womb temple – Lunar rebirth'
https://vimeo.com/1057043706?share=copy#t=0

Feb 18 Chris Knight 'How we got stuck: the hunter Monmaneki and his wives teach Graeber and Wengrow a lesson'
https://vimeo.com/1061208125?utm_source=email&utm_medium=vimeo-email&utm_campaign=44349

Feb 25 Erica Lagalisse and Chris Knight in conversation 'On anarchist anthropology'
https://vimeo.com/1063172694?share=copy

Mar 4 Christine Binnie
'Neonaturist body painting: a red RAG to patriarchy'
https://vimeo.com/1074465398

Mar 11 Chris Knight 'On Women and Jaguars: why perspectivism got it so wrong'
https://vimeo.com/1073597720

Mar 18 Kit Opie 'Primate mating systems and the evolution of language'
https://vimeo.com/1075096840

Mar 25 Ivan Tacey 'Serpentine cosmopolitics: a cross-cultural analysis of the Rainbow Serpent'
https://vimeo.com/1075098313

FREE community #fediscience, please BOOST!

TONIGHT!

Everybody welcome, just turn up!

LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM

Tuesday Feb 11, 6:30pm (London UTC)
Sasha Farnsworth talks on
'Architecture meets anthropology: Womb Temple--Lunar Rebirth'

Sasha Farnsworth (with Hossein Sadri) introduces the design of The Womb Temple. This emerges from a growing sentiment that refusing to build is essential to saving our planet from the perils of a changing climate. The Womb Temple postulates that the most effective way to counteract this is by reverting to ancient building techniques using raw stone and live trees, a rebirth for the construction industry.
Transporting these materials to the Manchester site is deliberately slow and labour-intensive, relying on human power rather than machinery. This slower pace allows building to be treated as a ritualistic process - each stone placed annually becomes a celebration.

The temple not only revives traditional building methods but also encourages the reintroduction of nature into urban environments. It becomes a sanctuary for lost animal species and serves as a ritual space where people can spiritually reconnect with the moon, a symbol currently absent from the Manchester skyline, further affirming the renewed connection with nature and the element that governs water, the giver of life.

Graduate of Coventry University, Sasha was recently awarded the RIBA Award for Sustainable Design at Part 1 for her project “Womb Temple: Lunar Re-Birth”. The concept for this proposal was born from her passion for creating environments that support the symbiotic relationship between people and the earth holistically.

Sasha and Hossein will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. Come in good time by 6:30pm before doors close please. You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak.

#LunarNewYear

We are celebrating Wednesday's Dark in a Menstrual in Central London. Themes are red ochre and Celtic matrilineal power of Brigit at Imbolc

The greatest #ritual on Earth -- #Lunar-scheduled as usual

To to to (end w visible )

We have a model which explains why the Moon organizes #religion around the world.

#lunarchy #anthropology
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg7gzzx3gno

Our #resolution this 'new year' is that in fact it began with the Winter #Solstice and runs through 13 Dark s to the next Winter Solstice. We will celebrate each dark and full Moon.

We intend to #ReclaimTime and the #patriarchal control of #time in the settler-colonial #Gregorian #calendar. This completely eliminates the #Moon which belongs to virtually every #Indigenous #cosmology. Cosmic time reckons with and

Look Westerly on a bright #London horizon this evening for the setting. Tomorrow late night lie with your feet NE and look up for the #Quadrantids (bring a blanket!)

Read more on #lunarchy here
https://www.jstor.org/stable/48713458

Happy Full Moon, waxes tonight, wanes tomorrow

We are delighted to be hosting Sasha Farnsworth at Radical #Anthropology Seminars @UCLAnthropology on Feb 11, coming up!

OMG wow!
We have just heard that this 'WombTemple: Lunar Re-Birth' project by Coventry Uni student Sasha Farnsworth has won a #RIBA Sustainable Architecture medal. This is inspired by #lunarchy and the work of #RadicalAnthropologyGroup

Take a look!

https://www.presidentsmedals.com/Entry-63281

Don Giovanni! You invited me to dine with you … The Mozart-Da Ponte masterpiece was premiered in Prague #OTD in 1787.

Don Giovanni undoubtedly the #MoonHusband who visits all the cycling women!

'.. his conquests include 640 women and girls in Italy, 231 in Germany, 100 in France, 91 in Turkey, but in Spain, 1,003 (Madamina, il catalogo è questo")'

From slightly earlier opera by Gazzaniga, libretto Bertati
'..be they ladies, city
women,
artisans, peasants,
waitresses, cooks and scullery maids,
it suffices they be female
for him to have to make love to them.'

TODAY!!
Come and join us for the amazing
MOONCLOCK launch this Saturday!

waxing new moon
we have a special FREE LIVE event
in Islington, N London, midday Oct 5
All welcome!

MOONCLOCK LAUNCH

On Saturday October 5, 12 noon, waxing
brilliant artist Lex Franchi unleashes the power of her newly designed #MOONCLOCK

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/moonclock-launch-lets-bleed-tickets-1007646416557

This is a beautiful artefact which will puzzle and perplex #archaeologists for generations to come -- a sculpture and tool to track your #menstrual cycle. It is a beautiful gift for someone experiencing their first but you don't need to have a menstrual cycle. All human bodies evolved under the sway of the moon.

Join us for an afternoon of song, story, synchrony of breath to reconnect to our #lunar #ancestral past

This is a FREE LIVE event open to every #body with therapists, artists, anthropologists in North London at New Unity, 277A Upper Street N1 2TZ
12 noon to 6 pm
To get your mits on a MOONCLOCK, roll up, roll up!

PROGRAMME
12 noon Welcome
12:15-1:30 Breath Workshop (Freddie Birley)
2-3:30 Lunarchy, Sex strike and #Indigenous menstrual cosmology (Heloise Lepinard, Chris Knight, Camilla Power)
4-6 Official MOONCLOCK Launch!
Celebratory drinks with Lex Franchi!

Watch out for the visible moonset that evening!

Witness of the scheduled #Yanesha women and girls' rite-of-passage #ponapnora

"Ahueney ponapnoro!” In the Yanesha’ language, that meant “let’s all go to ponapnora”—a celebration marking the passage to womanhood.
...
"When menstruating for the first time, a young Yanesha’ girl is traditionally sheltered in a leaf-walled hut for one to six lunar cycles. In the traditional custom, she would undergo a lengthy purification ..."

Tonight the moon will be
Tomorrow we announce a special event for October New Moon in London:
Launch of the #MOONCLOCK!

#lunarchy #menstruation #anthropology #rulebythemoon

https://www.sapiens.org/biology/puberty-ritual/

Join us next Friday for Dark Moon, the #YearoftheDragon LIVE in London

LET'S BLEED!

Everyone is welcome to see in the
#LunarNewYear

Fri Feb 9, 7-9pm
@newunity Upper St, N1 2TZ (5 mins from Highbury & Islington tube)

We promise Dragon Chaos!
#Lunarchy #Dragonchaos