Rising seas, shifting shorelines, and melting permafrost now render the ground less legible, less secure—no longer the fixed foundation of thought or dwelling it was once presumed to be. In such a world, the Anthropocene cannot be told solely as a lithic story.
This is a time when “wet substance saturates our lifeworld,” calling us to attend to “what flows beneath this stony and terrestrial tale” and to reconsider “our relations to the waters with which we live and upon which we depend”. From this orientation, an alternative epistemology has taken shape: thinking with water.
