Jules Levy - Cannabis As Companion Species

I am proposing a presentation based on my recent masters dissertation titled Crossing the Great Divide: Cannabis as Companion Species. My discussion is framed by the work of multispecies anthropologist Anna Tsing who affirms “human nature is an interspecies relationship” and Professor of the history of consciousness studies Donna Haraway. Haraway introduced the concept of companion species in her 2003 manifesto; I now add cannabis, a “species in obligatory, constitutive, historical, protean relationship with human beings”. The human-cannabis relationship (HCR) is ubiquitous - a natureculture ambassador. It manifests in the interaction between chemical compounds, found in the female cannabis growers, and an array of mammalian physiological and psychological processes. It can also be found in co-operative, post-capitalist modes of production aimed at ameliorating current and future socio-economic crises.

Filmed at Breaking Convention 2017
4th International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness
University of Greenwich London - June 30th - July 2nd 2017

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