{"product_id":"9789082988024","title":"Becoming the Forest","description":"BTF IV includes specially commissioned essays, interviews and illustrations, by animists, philosophers, artists and musicians, including: an essay on panpsychism as a possible answer to the climate crisis; a philosophical-historical overview of the relationship between black metal and the forest; a magical-realist account of a sylvan trip gone wrong; an in-depth interview with Rune from Nordic Animism, whose project looks to Scandinavian folklore and customs for “hidden animist knowledge” and more respectful ways of living with other subjectivities.\n\nThe symbolism of the primstav (a calendar staff used by the agricultural societies of old Scandinavia), runs through the issue. Its seasonally-based, cyclical view of time hints towards a worldview which was embedded in its environment, and which placed man as part of - and at the mercy of- nature, rather than above it.\n\nContributors: Lotte Brown, By the Spirits, Crown of Asteria, Drukfout, Feral Season, Una Hamilton Helle, Hedda Hassel Mørch, Hawthonn, Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen, Invunche, Helge Kaasin, Edvard Munch, Necrofier, Alexandra Uppman, Cathy Ward\n\nEdited by Una Hamilton Helle and Lotte Brown\nPublished by Het Bos Antwerpen\nSupported by the Norwegian Arts Council\nDesigned by Tom Sewell\n\nTable of Contents\n\nEntering the forest\nUna Hamilton Helle\nWherein time moves in spirals, and petroglyphs speak of the coming Fimbulwinter\n\nInterview — Feral Season (US)\nIn which the scorched trails of wildfires are retrodden through the range of light\n\nNordic Animism\nExcavating traditional knowledge with Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen\nWherein a Dane exhumes the remains of lost lore and discovers life therein\n\nInterview — Invunche (NL)\nIn which the three-legged figure of Chilote folklore guards the secrets of a warlock’s cave\n\nInterview — Crown of Asteria (US)\nIn which mythology mixes with magical intent in the Michigan mist.\n\nGjennom den Onde dunkle Skog\nHelge Kaasin\nWherein the roots of Norwegian Black Metal are found to burrow deep into the soil of history\n\nInterview — Necrofier (US)\nIn which synchronistic tales are told of a child-eating demon and a tiger-eye ring\n\nResearchers — a Cliffhanger\nLotte Brown\nWherein the moon is swallowed, mud is tasted and the sound of bone hitting stone echoes through the forest\n\nInterview — By the Spirits (POL)\nIn which a Silesian mountain is ascended and a path of ancient magick traversed\n\nPanpsychism as environmental philosophy\nHedda Hassel Mørch\nWherein the vast, shadowy land of consciousness is explored and the limits of Western thinking probed\n\nInterview — Hawthonn (GB)\nIn which the duo go searching for the wyrd sonic signatures of Britain’s edgelands\n\nFurther artworks by Lotte Brown (BE), Drukfout (BE), Una Hamilton Helle (NO),\nEdvard Munch (NO), Alexandra Uppman (BE), Cathy Ward (GB)","brand":"Het Bos Antwerpen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65526810411357,"sku":null,"price":11.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/3893\/2573\/files\/9789082988024_c9e76b8d-ee74-4759-aba6-0b2e62285acc.jpg?v=1788951130","url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/9789082988024","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}