Más allá del fin Nº 3.5 1 Editorial by Helen Hughes, Carla Macchiavello Calentura: While we were launching Más allá del began to edit the Ensayos journal we called it a and Camila Marambio fin 3, there were fires ravaging the Amazon. periodical because we intuited it brought news Soon after some of us left Australia, fires raged from beyond the end. Appropriate Beginning on that island too. Some of the authors—wild women, wise elders, Only two months or so later, a social revolt that learned historians, poets, activists and artisans— 2 Juan Dávila interviewed by erupted in Chile caught fire. Here and elsewhere, who shed their word-tears into Más allá del fin#3 are Carla Macchiavello and Camila Marambio more continue to ignite. now joined by new voices to comingle past, present Now a viral fire rages around the world. and future; and, much like Don Nito’s salve, #3.5 was Deep Time I remember that when we were walking on conceived and prepared as a healing infusion, to Minjerribah, you said they said the Elders said that strengthen the vitality of the wording that reanimates 7 Verso l'infinito by Lucy Bleach fires were used to burn the bush to grow new plants a world after the fires have burnt the bush. 9 Archipelagic Wanderings in Trowunna from seeds that needed heat. Not monocultures, but by Denise Milstein new cultures. Abundant poetry, 17 Images of the Invisible by Catalina Valdés Is this such a moment? Camila While coyuntura in Spanish is ‘to join in this Ethics of Place moment’, right now, according to these specific fac- tors, at what feels like a turning point to some and Dear Carla and Camila, 19 Subantarctic Imagination Versus Southern increased hardship for many more, yunta is slang for Mindset by Joaquín Bascopé Julio the closeness one feels with a friend. The calorci- The months since we launched Discipline, Más allá 23 Understanding Human Agency in Terms to of the aglomeración, even if virtual, especially del fin have been breathless. Fires, like those in the of Place: A Proposed Aboriginal Research when viral. It also refers to animals coming together, Amazon that raged against the backdrop of your Methodology by Mary Graham working together (while under human pressure to do visit to Australia last August, Carla, devastated 28 Resisting Genocide by Hema'ny Molina so, using a specific tool, as all sorts of institutions huge tracts of the continent in Australia over our pressure us to do, to go back to normal, bow your summer—arriving earlier, and hitting harder and Impressions and Passages heads and necks, structural violence oppressing faster than before. Millions of animals, insects and some to the point of asphyxia). Doesn’t seem as al- plants perished, some near to the point of extinction. 29 Knotting Together South-South Connections truistic as we’d hope, this language I’m using for the Humans died too. And if city dwellers wanted to by Sonja Carmichael and Sarita Gálvez editorial? Well, la coyuntura está peluda, it’s so hard ignore the perils that rural communities face each 33 Diving into Oracular Politics right now, for so many, it is deadly, for so many too. bushfire season, ever worsening in step with by Dr. C.F. Black and Caitlin Franzmann What is coming together for each right now? climate catastrophe, this time they couldn’t. Thick 39 (un)becoming educated by Carla Macchiavello What comes apart? What do we become a-part of, smoke suffused the nation’s major metropolitan tear apart, now? cities: Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne. We were Weaving Hands Is this an end, a hiatus, a start or a spark? warned not to go outside, as the air was toxic. There Why does “beyond the end” speak so prescient- were rushes on air purifiers. 43 ÆS JÁLA-KAWÉSQAR KUTEKÉ ČE ly to the present moment? I remember writing to Camila and Cecilia on = ‘My Ancestor and Me’ To something we are beginning to glimpse, the day big rain finally broke. I was reading in the by Patricia Messier Loncuante a spark catching fire just there, más allá, beyond? State Library of Victoria. The atmosphere darkened, 48 Retracing the History of Tasmanian and the skies opened up. Along with almost Aboriginal Shell Necklaces Carla everyone else in the reading room, I rushed outside by Lola Greeno to experience what felt like relief; a man lay down 50 Shells and Fibers Across the Seas on his back on the stone stairs leading up to the by Josefina de la Maza Carla, Helen, ensayistas, readers, lovers, Library entrance, arms wide open, in perfect haters, collaborators, colonisers, silence, and absorbed every drop. Our summer, so often characterised by heat- Many summers ago, on the steep slopes of the An- induced lethargy, was spent in a state of Editorial des Mountains, I came across a yunta de bueyes, a hyperactive communication—checking in with yoke of oxen. These two magnificent animals were loved ones in danger, refreshing news feeds, Helen Hughes, Carla Macchiavello bound together by a wooden crosspiece fastened obsessively monitoring the weather forecast. We and Camila Marambio over their necks and attached to a plough, but that’s began the year 2020 already emotionally, not all, they were not only restricted in their move- physically and economically exhausted. Then, of Dear friends, lovers, collaborators, ments, they were also agonizing because they had course, the virus. The focus of which has left those my dearest Camila and Helen, mysteriously caught on fire and their side bodies most affected by the bushfires doubly traumatised, had been scorched open. I observed the fleshy and now largely forgotten by the addiction to, and As I spread my virtual fingers to try to reach you, miles wounds and sensed the pain these animals were in. I amnesia of, contemporary news cycles. and oceans apart, as neurons and airwaves, synapses, vomited. Don Nito, the animal’s carer was as dis- It’s hard to imagine a symbolic event for electrical currents and clanking keyboards pressed by turbed as I was, if not more. He was preparing a coronavirus like the big rain that hinted towards an worn-out, washed out, working hands, enmesh, I think salve to place on their skin. I joined him by collect- end to the carnage of the bushfires. But many of the about what it means to engage in this editorial en- ing the herbs he signalled as healing (mático and means for preparing for that moment—Indigenous deavor. To republish a fraction of the third issue of Más llantén) and tossed them into the cauldron where he knowledge, obligations to Country, the words of allá del fin, that grew out of so much love, that grew as was macerating them. For hours we sat in silence as wise women, of mothers, of artists, activists and mould into Discipline between 2018 and 2019, now, at if only our lack of words could compensate for the poets, solidarity with animals, plants and fungi, this coyuntura. Why and why not make Más allá del lack of compassion that we humans have had for the climate justice, justice for workers, racial justice, a fin unfurl as 3.5? Who cares, why care? other creatures who belong to this planet. conception of time that does not greedily hedge its Fire, death, scars; fever, illness, regenerative bets against a toxic future, a bit of magic—can be Cariño, es que es la coyuntura. tissue; sensuality; aliveness; fascia. Triads that discovered across the pages of Más allá del fin#3.5. ¿La calentura? morph in my mind and in time as I sink into Carla’s No, sí, bue-no, la coyuntura. words, into the world, into the wording worlds that In solidarity, La calentura you mean. are conjured by más allá del fin. When Carla and I Helen Más allá del fin No. 3.5 1 Editorial Juan Dávila interviewed by Carla Macchiavello and Camila Marambio Juan Dávila, Ralco, 2016, oil on canvas, 200 × 250 cm. Courtesy of Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art, Melbourne. from: Juan Dávila Richard’s writings as ‘escena de avanzada’) was un- date: Nov 4, 2018, 4:35 AM heard of, both in Australia and Chile. When compared subject: Preguntas to the book of Gaspar Galáz and Milan Ivelic, La pin- tura en Chile (Painting in Chile), 1981, which was a HI, I will try to begin, in disorder, x J story of bookkeepers, Richard’s text was powerful. Paul Foss, the subsequent editor of Art and Sent from my iPad Text after Taylor, and I, translated it. This took us half a year, without pay. The Spanish text never 3.2. How did you approach the translation of matches the precision and clearness it has in Eng- Nelly Richard’s text (originally in Spanish) to a lish. It’s like translating poetry, the text is re-written different cultural context? What kinds of deci- in another language, maintaining its faithfulness to sions were made regarding its translation, the the significance and under different limitations. Be- images that were to be used, the public the text sides, Richard’s text was written in a Spanish that was meant to address? For example, In the in- clearly had French as a first language. The Euro- troduction to the reprint of the book, made by pean intellectual debates that arrived in Chile via Metales Pesados in Chile, Nelly Richard men- books in the ’70s produced a certain style and they tions that while there was a need for the bilin- were difficult to read.