My call to provincialise language is to find ways of recognising how human language is the product of just one kind of sign system nested within a much broader semiotic universe that extends beyond the human. It is because representation extends beyond the human and beyond language that we can make claims about other than human representational processes.
Eduardo Kohn, Thinking with a forest’s thoughts
Our distinct human kind of thinking is not the only kind of thinking available to us, and this, for me, is why we need to provincialise language.
Eduardo Kohn, Thinking with a forest’s thoughts
in an anthropology beyond the human what we are trying to do is to consider the distinct kinds of reals beyond that human that emerge in this forest.
Eduardo Kohn, Thinking with a forest’s thoughts