Ikol

By Ikol

Imbricated

As you can see, these shingles are laid in an overlapping sequence, so that their coverage is more comprehensive; in this way, every shingle is touching other shingles, so that the effect is a web of shingles that are all imbricated with/in each other.

Much like these shingles, we too are imbricated with/in our world. "With" it because, as Donna Haraway suggests, we and it grow together; "in" it because this growing is not alongside, but rather through; and "imbricated" because the lines that divide human and nonhuman, human and animal, and nature and culture are not only disappearing fast, but were never really there to begin with.

Thus "imbricated" is clearly the most important word in the English language. Duh.

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