SOCIAL
PALLAS MANU WANDERING
CONTATTACI
© Copyright ©2022 All riserved by PallasManuWandering (Tn) Italy
Symbiocene Sym-Fi
SYMBIOCENE
BIODIVERSITY
SYM-FI
ENTOPIC-CONSTRUCTIVE VISION OF SYM-FI FICTION
PALLAS MANU WANDERING
Alessandro Vanzo
SYM-FI CONNECTED TO THE TWO BRAINS
SYMBIOSIS in the belly, SYMPHONY in the mind: beyond the communication barrier
The Symbiocene debated in academic and intellectual circles isolates the debate in self-referential circles. The concept of overcoming the Anthropocene is developed by philosophers, biologists and sociologists with different approaches and terminology: Symbiocene, Sympoiesis, Symbioethics, New Ecology, Grammar of Evolution.
This academic world is flanked by a vast galaxy of associations, training institutions, environmental education centers and consulting companies aimed at the general public. The crowding of neologisms, conferences and certifications risks increasing the gap of incommunicability. To a small extent as a result of linguistic elitism, but rather because of the gap from material reality. Most people face climate problems now in everyday life and in mass culture the perception prevails that the movements on the climate crisis do not offer solutions, as they are far from real needs.
The symbiocene narrative is the only emotional tool that translates abstract concepts into tangible realities. Academic non-fiction speaks to the mind, fiction to imagination and empathy, and is also proposed as a popular support for the Academy.
Sym-fi is the positive evolution of eco-fi; he does not denounce the disaster, he inserts it into history as an anthropic adversary who hinders the hero from expressing his symbiotic potential. It builds worlds in which technology, human culture and natural ecosystems coexist in harmony.
Ordinary people need stories that give value to change, to the common imagination. If people can see and desire the symbiotic future through storytelling, they will be more likely to demand it and realize it in reality. Presumably a reaction, to validate one's scientific and philosophical literacy, the achievement of certificates and attestations.
Symbiotic humanity, having enhanced the faculties of the second brain linked to intuition and visceral emotionality, models sustainability into sensory and empathic experience (Environment, Economy, Society).
Alessandro Vanzo
CONTENT CREATOR MEDIA KIT
PALLASMANUWANDERING
THE CONCEPT
TITLE
L’universo simbiotico. Global Multimedial Cultural Franchise. IP with Social Impact
SUBTITLE
Sentient Nature and the symbioethical relationship with humanity. The transmedia saga of sim-fi (Simbiocene Fiction) written by pallasmanuwandering, the ghostwriter of Pallas' cat
IP CONCEPT
Hope for the future on the habitable planet. Mutualistic symbiosis and co-evolution. Trans-disciplinary publishing ecosystem for the dissemination of the Symbiocene and Biodiversity that combines environmental sciences, humanities and advanced narrative languages.
THE BASE
Five years of consolidation of the brand identity. The ghostwriter of Pallas' cat as a methodological frame work of 'Non-Human Perspectives'. Narrative and scientific expedient to analyze data on Biodiversity, compose and enhance them.
SELF-PUBLISHED BOOKS
Four in English, Italian and German. Ready for global distribution and localization of other markets.
"THE CAT PALLAS AND THE KINGDOM OF LU" The meeting in the Neolithic between the little girl Lu and the puppy Pallas through visual telepathy. Perfect for a visual fit
(graphic novel or animated film) focused on interspecies empathy.
"THE PREDICTION- THE PREVENTION"A brand bible for journalists, publishers and investors, presented in the Palazzo Merulana in Rome. It combines fiction with science to propose itself as a popular tool.
"INHABITING THE COSMIC TREE" The transcontinental anthology with notes in the margins of the two archivists of the Biodiversity Observatory which acts as a Study Center. It produces reports, analyses and cultural content translated into narrative. The presence of archivist Manul expresses the non-human point of view, that of AI8BUS, the BioAI model applied to the analysis of ecological and socio-environmental data. Eight stories about a different era on earth. Ideal for a transposition into an anthology TV series or fiction podcast.
"THE LEGEND OF MANUL PALLAS CAT" The origin of the Otocolobus species in an interactive and multimedia format. It paves the way for gamification and interactive applications. The Triple Alliance (AI, Climate, Biodiversity) is the pillar on which enlightened technology companies (tech for good) could invest by sponsorship.
BOOKS IN WRITING
The first "MANUL. THE EMBRACE OF SYM-PARABLES" A tool for civic, ethical, environmental education. In a secular key, it becomes the biological, evolutionary tool that activates survival and adaptation. It anticipates and embodies the concept of Symbiocene.
The second is the Anthology in which several emerging human authors of different nationalities, wild and domestic non-humans, analyze the evolution of life in the Symbiocene based on mutual aid. AI8BUS is BioAI, an entity that harmonizes human action with the balance of all species.
WRITTEN AND UNPUBLISHED BOOKS
The first of the trilogy was published "The Pallas Cat and the Kingdom of Lu"
The second, "Black Ash of the Moon", an unspecified setting that answers the question "What if it were Manul and Lu who welcomed unaccompanied, abandoned, repudiated minors into the urbanized world?" Neutralized the threat of the Black Moon from ESP faculties.
The third "Lu, Manul, AI. The symbiotic future". The interaction between human, non-human and AI increases the sense of belonging and initiates the process of community empowerment.
On the theme of ethnic minorities: "Chukchi" set in Lapland and "The Bald Basque" set in the Basque Country.
SELF-FINANCING
Intellectual production is independent and solid. No production debt.
EXPANSION OF THE NARRATIVE UNIVERSE
EDUTAINMENT & PARKS
Distribution of sym-fi fiction. Interactive multimedia installations in partner zoos and parks, educational exhibitions based on the Symbiocene and Biodiversity. Ecological role of structures for environmental education, green oases for the psychophysical well-being of visitors.
GAMING
Video games about biological cooperation
CONSUMER PRODUCTS
Ethical licensing and merchandising linked to the iconic figure of Manul the cat of Pallas, ambassador of Biodiversity and archivist of the Symbiocene.
LOGO, EMBLEM
The pallasmanuwandering logo and the emblem of the Symbiocene have been created
TO BE FURTHER INVESTIGATED
PROPOSAL FOR CO-PARTICIPATION
Search for a global strategic partner (International Publisher, Animation Studio, Video Game Producer or Global Licensing Agency) in a co-participation formula in royalties or joint ventures. Participation in commercial distribution, mass marketing channels, technical development of multimedia extensions
MASTER FRANCHISING PROPOSAL
Pallasmanuwandering retains the IP of the cultural franchise and sells the commercial development rights.
EPIC SAGA
Alesandro Vanzo
MANUL
Epic Saga
Manul, an alien who arrived on earth twelve million years ago with extraterrestrials from the planet Walahysa.
The ability to adapt and non-verbal communication are part of scientific theory based on biology and neuroscience. The gut-brain axis: Symbiosis in the belly, symphony in the mind.
The communication of the alien Manul with pallasmanuwandering takes place through the flow of images, a language that translates moods into visual sequences. They are short engaging videos conveyed through Manul's mind and belly. The mental image generated by the symbiotic union between human and alien. The eyes with round pupils are two portals open to the visual narrative of the non-human.
Going back up the evolutionary line, its DNA possesses the genetic memory of how life resists great mass extinctions, glaciations, and climate collapse. The archaic feline is the guardian of a forgotten balance and reveals himself to save the biosphere, standing as the archetype of the symbiosis between Sapiens and nature.
More than 200 photos of Manul's facial expressions taken by fans at zoological parks around the world were collected. Enthusiasts bewitched by the unexpected symbiotic hypnosis of the very soul of the cosmos. They have caught the proud, indomitable gaze of the savage to discover their own: the choice not to be tamed by the anthropic embrace.
Manul is an absolute celebrity, the communication interface of primordial awakening. The adult is projected into childhood in which the relationship with non-humans was equal, magical and devoid of infrastructure. Memories emerge of when, at the dawn of existence, he listened to nature and, reflected in Manul's liberating gaze, found the bond lost in the anthropic era.
Pallas Manu Wandering spreads knowledge on scientific basis and excursions, sym-fi storytelling fills the cultural void in the domain of dystopian narrative. Anthropological metamorphosis fundamental to preserve the web of life. Manul,
the iconic non-human is the protagonist of the transition and the cultural tool for sharing and active participation of readers in change.
The alliance with bioparks is decisive for the start of the new organic era; Presidia for the conservation of biodiversity, protected oases, beacons of symbiotic culture, guardians of the multi-species alliance, scientific conservation and more. Visitors themselves derive physiological and mental benefits through thematic itineraries, environmental education, immersion in natural habitats niches in an increasingly man-made planet.
THE SYNERGY BETWEEN SCHOOLS AND BIOPARKS
The ecological transition and the integration of the Symbiocene in schools are programs that find in Bioparks the model of an interdependent ecosystem and involve billions of dollars in investments.
In the Bioparks universe, educational programs focus on the concept of coexistence and symbiosis with non-humans, plants and microorganisms.
The models developed in Europe are in Scandinavia, France, Germany, Scandinavian countries.
In non-European countries such as Australia, UK, USA, China, Japan, Russia, India, South East Asia, Singapore, South Korea, Indonesia.
I reiterate the pedagogical fact; While childhood is full of symbiotic fairy tales, from adolescence onwards dystopia prevails. Sym-fi fills the narrative void, provides the cognitive tools to imagine and co-design future scenarios in the overall vision.
Manul is a liminal creature, emblem of humanity's transition to the threshold of consciousness enhanced by sensory perception. Inner awakening overlooking the promised world.
PERSPECTIVE DIPTYCH
Neuroscience applied to bioconscious storytelling, symbiotic science fiction stories that become an environmental humanitarian discipline.
Philosophical and biological evolution of fiction not only as entertainment but as a scientifically based tool, which goes beyond anthropocentrism to integrate biological and ecological awareness.
The effectiveness of the Diptych is based on the mirror scene, supported by modern environmental psychology. The emotional hook – Anthropocene – describes reality, the symbiotic catharsis presents the same scenario rehabilitated by the principles of the Symbiocene. The existential threat is confronted with the alternative of viable change. Once the contrast is made tangible, it acts on the pain caused by the loss of one's habitat.
Scientific non-fiction has mapped the climate crisis and disseminated the data collected to guide policy and counter scientific denialism. Although the climate emergency has taken over everyday life, it does not overcome the emotional paralysis of the public. The collective response fragmented into movements does not translate into mass participation.
The transition to the Symbiocene is not based on the activation of the imaginary, but on the discovery of having the world of desires at home. The planet does not change, the way of inhabiting it changes.
Perspective diptych. Stories
The end of the first part of the diptych is not the conclusion, but the threshold of a radical transformation.
· THE SWALLOW
· THE SHARP BEND
Alessandro Vanzo
FLOWS
Literary Diptych
( Overcome environmental nihilism )
FOREWORD
The diptych, as a metaphor in its specular structure, involves the reader in describing the anthropic crisis and at the same time overcomes the trauma. The transition to the Symbiocene represents the vital and revolutionary turning point. The conflict of different visions on the same topic takes place in space-time and complex themes are present in the guise of popular fiction.
The diptych has the power to transform reality, to the extent that utopia takes shape from the juxtaposition of different versions of the same event. The contradictory duality between reality and imagination is the way to intervene and transform the diptych into a teaching of emancipation. The imprint of one's own experience, projected into the imaginary process of evolution, stimulates other perspectives and the image that is completed reinvents the knowledge of reality.
Leaving room for intuition and imagination allows emancipation, empathy to express oneself, to consider non-human life forms capable of expressing themselves with their own language.
FLOWS.
Environmental philosophy and biological reality
ANTHROPOCENE – Table I
ANTRO. The loneliness of the guest.
Even if I would like to sleep standing. The imminent execution is nothing more than the end of my being in biological form: the Self continues to live and transmigrates into the Symbiocene. Table II of the diptych.
To do well, I should start telling about myself starting from the generative process to childbirth; the transition from the aquatic environment to the aerial one. The fall from total symbiosis into the reassuring and protected microcosm of the second placenta. An unknown universe to be discovered through the senses, where relationships and culture influence development. Nature and smell have been decisive in my inner journey, to the point of co-evolving together with the environment and canceling myself in it. I have made friends with non-humans and have received security and stability in return. The source of olfactory perception has favored the transfer to other sensory domains: sniffing out presumable dangers and developing bonds based on invisible chemical affinity. In some cases providential help in desperate situations, in others to seize opportunities.
The house was the first school, the second the forest; during a storm for the construction of the cognitive map imprinted in the DNA. The intense smell activated the ancient memory of the cells, going back to the origins of my species.
After childhood, I did not immediately suffer the transition to pre-adolescence, a moment that marks the official entry into the social system of the Anthropocene. The first alarm signal came from defining non-humans as animals, followed by the termination of the symbiosis with nature and the realization of living in an altered environment.
I have applied personal growth in the freedom to exercise command over myself. I have adapted to respect for others, I have a strong civic sense, democratic integrity and responsible choices towards mother nature.
After completing my studies, I founded my vision of work on freedom of initiative, an element that sometimes struggles to coexist with traditional structures. Driven by the desire to operate as a free spirit, I took the opportunity to move abroad and start an independent business. Climate change took me by surprise, it followed in my footsteps wherever I decided to move. I say this with good reason because of the existential crisis that followed.
Closely related to the environmental crisis caused by the absence of concrete strategies to combat it. Institutional immobility in stark contrast to the evidence of the phenomena, even if they are part of the daily life of the world population. I consider myself a model citizen with extreme self-discipline, respectful of social rules and the well-being of the ecosystem. The same society that ignores the environment has laid the trap of eco-anxiety. The spell was broken with the heat waves that haunted me wherever I was. Behavioral effects that I did not give importance to, attributed to physical fatigue. The constant irascibility towards collaborators was the indication of a mental disorder. When the chronic disturbance in deep sleep arrived, I decided to intersperse work with days off. I have always been healthy, so the heat did not act as an amplifier of latent vulnerabilities. As a balanced person, I resisted the idea of rebelling against the system and began to consider the environment as the threat to my well-being. I entered a deep crisis; I was looking for the culprit, condemned to witness the destruction of the ecosystem and in turn threatened with death. Having discarded the geological and climatic cyclicality, I attributed the responsibility for the failure to the social order as the guarantor of stability, well-being and the protection of citizens. In accordance with personal growth in the freedom to exercise command over myself, I decided to react to the wrong suffered. To the pain caused by the destruction of the environment; extreme solastalgia.
I open my eyes before the execution begins, as a last wish I refused the blindfold. Once the roar of the attack against the intended victims has been extinguished, the peaceful reaction will arise, in the new era. I breathe the tension in the air before the roar of the gunshots: the echo of the execution will not produce the desired intimidating effect, but will instead make those who, domesticated, will find themselves betrayed by the system. Sight and smell will accompany me in the transition to the Symbiocene.
SYMBIOCENE – Table II
SYMBIO. The multispecies family.
I struggle to get out of bed, I am still absorbed in remembering the dream. It is not the first time that the epigenic inheritance has surfaced, the awakening of the spokesperson chromosomes of my ancestor. Historical memory of environmental stimuli of traumas experienced and no longer useful for my survival. Threats that date back to the Anthropocene, the era of violence. Although the negative environment belongs to the distant past, the biological transition is slow and human descent retains part of the anthropic characteristics.
As I walk, I reflect on my origin and on the number 9; the biological-temporal ennead of human development. Nine months for birth, nine years for consciousness and as many for the immune structure; the ecosystem of the intestinal microbiota.
I shake my head thinking of the transition from the protected aquatic symbiotic environment, to the aerial universe for the development of life. To the spontaneous animism extended to all childhood and to the symbiotic ecology that ended on the threshold of pre-adolescence. The transition into the Anthropocene; the domination of competition, of the isolation of the human species.
The clock catches my attention, I have to hurry up, I don't mean to be late.
CONSERVATORY OF ECOTHERAPY
I impose on myself the recovery of serenity; I belong to the present and physical and mental well-being are proper to wakefulness, I have dispersed the atavistic destabilizing legacy in the dream.
Once inside the Conservatory I turn to the pretty Receptionist and ask her if the First Degree Reconnected have arrived.
Having received the negative answer, he hands me the file concerning them. I can give myself time to breathe deeply the fragrances of perfumes coming from the young woman. The desk – the workstation that separates us – is an obstacle for both of us. I look up from the document I am reading, certain to see her smile.
"Yes," he says, "The little girl miraculously survived the earthquake, the only survivor of a large family. As you know, the same episode as mine, caused by the melting of the glacier, the reduction of pressure on the earth's crust and consequent seismic activity. I will ask the Keeper for permission to take care of her, my first Ecotuner assignment.
It's my turn to smile « I will follow the adult with personality alterations due to extreme solastalgia. Mirror reflection of my ancestor». They stared at each other for a long time before embracing, united by the program of the therapeutic path which, in both cases, also included the awakening of the symbiotic child.
"Eh, no," I react, closing the file, "The Keeper of the Department to the First Degree Reconnected has assigned the black panther. He will have Manul, like all the previous ones of which I have been Ecotuner. What non-human have they assigned to your child?"
« The pair of Ravens »
« Excellent. The grieving process facilitated by non-humans who reflect her grief, they also react to grief. The child has lost the human family and if she is adopted she will find the interspecific family.
–
BIODIVERSITY OBSERVATORY
The festive company of the First Degree Reconnected left the Observatory and entered the Conservatory: they were preceded by Suna, the Major Custodian. The scientist Shaman embodied the synthesis between science and spirit. Raised her hand imposes silence, in her eyes you can read the serenity that permeates the structures of reception and regeneration, opposed during the transition from the anthropic and utilitarian mentality to the well-being of the biosphere. The sound of the blows of the ancient stick on the stone is the voice of native wisdom and the bond with the elements. Determination that has allowed the guardian of ecological balance to restore harmony with the environment to earthly reality, through the creation of the structures crucial for life on the planet.
The Conservatory of Ecotherapy. For the recovery of the misfits of the Antrtopocene.
The Biodiversity Observatory. With BioAi computational entity merged with the Biosphere.
The Triple Alliance. A political and biological ecosystem capable of guaranteeing the future.
The Multispecies. Sapiens citizen among the citizens of the earth.
Suna, having read the thoughts of Simbio and the Recptionist, bows her head in assent, confirming their respective requests. The excited Receptionist approaches the little girl and tells her that she will be her Ecotuner and both burst into tears from happiness. I approach and ask the little girl for the summary of the experience in the Observatory. The excitement of the experience and the haste to reach the Flow Habitats of non-humans reduces the synthesis to the essential.
Behind the ear of the first degree Reconnected, the subcutaneous bionic ear had been grafted, to receive the languages decoded by BioAi in the form of sensory and emotional impulses. The visual-emotional preparation session that establishes the sensory and empathic harmony necessary for the path of Reconnection. Symbiotic technology to awaken dormant sensory faculties.
From theory to practice; the group would meet the Rangers, the operational arm of bio-conservation, ecosystem health in the non-human habitat.
TRIPLE ALLIANCE
(BioAI, Climate, Biodiversity)
The Receptionist, my wife, has been appointed assistant to the Major Caretaker. We are sitting on the lawn under the ancient oak tree and watching our three children play on the shores of the lake. Joined by Manul's couple with three cubs in tow, the cheerful brigade becomes the attraction of the Flows' Habitat. The joyful cries call the pair of crows back to the wild; once the natural habitats have been restored, the fauna has been transferred. Non-humans, however, do not forget their origin or the protection that allowed them to survive the Anthropocene. The festival that is celebrated inside crosses its borders, envelops the atmosphere, blends with the environment and recalls their presence. Flocks of crows and other creatures reach the multi-species family.
Surprise
The sliding glass door of the entrance opens from the Biodiversity Observatory; technology comes out intent on merging with nature, they are interconnected organisms dependent on each other. The empathic immersion guided by BioAI is in tune with the party. Happiness is multiplied in welcoming Junior BioAI, an interaction made possible by the device applied to all forms of life present. A delirium of joy expressed with sounds, music, projection of holograms, including textual ones, empathic stimuli, dances. Giving Junior BioAi the appearance of Pallas' cat is part of the symbiotic mentality.
PALLASMANUWANDERING
Today true culture is missing: that critical ability to form one's own, free and independent opinion. Rekindle this thought: load the weapon of culture into the ballot box and conquer the well-deserved power of knowledge and awareness. It is time to stop taking to the streets, it is time to take the chair.
THE SYMBIOTIC NARRATIVE
The Swallow
The Symbiocene makes flock with the Swallow
Lorem Ipsum dolor sit amet
The seat of Lu's international empire is located in the largest private property in the territory of the Megalopolis; It includes a series of buildings separated by parks with lakes, aviaries or aquariums. A science and technology biopark with a series of specialized facilities.
From the Dome of the Felids – a multipurpose building also used as a school after the lesson, the teenagers and younger pupils came out, not the pre-adolescents who remained waiting for the arrival of Lu – guest of honor – and Manul. All together they entered the adjacent Biosphere Observatory.
The girls and boys of the lively group obeyed the order of AI8BUS (La BioAI) and sat in silence. They stared at Lu, eager to find out the reason for the selection, while Manul peered into their minds from the top of the designated location. Lu reached over Manul's head and the contact stimulated the peculiar growl; starting signal of the SYMBIOSIS lesson.
*-*
AI8BUS, as usual in the presence of pupils aged 10 to 13, addressed pre-adolescents using verbal language, specifying that in the past it was the most direct form of communication in the transition from symbiotic childhood to anthropic pre-adolescence. He continued the brief premise by clarifying that in the current era of the Symbiocene, the visual emotional lesson would unfold via the collective mental connection induced. After a moment of strategic pause, having obtained Lu's approval, AI8BUS specified that the experienced empathic and interspecific sensory activity would accompany them throughout their lives.
THE SWALLOW
AI8BUS. Introduction
This year he would have made it again.
The male swallow, on the return journey from Africa, was just a few hours away from reaching the Portico with the nest. On the farm, the semi-open porch connected the stables and the barn, for the swallow they were warehouses of food resources with the abundant presence of insects. Climate change had amplified the annual migratory difficulties, including doubt about the date of departure due to the changed climatic conditions upon arrival. The male swallow had exceeded the average longevity of two years, reaching seven years of life. When he arrived at his destination, he had begun to restore the nest, ready to defend it from the other males and waiting for the arrival of the female - if she survived -. Human, to facilitate the restoration, had created the pond from which to extract the necessary mud. The intensity of the natural phenomena would have caused damage to the nest several times during his stay.
There were three eggs to be incubated and once hatched, after two weeks, the body and wing plumage of the chicks would have thickened, however insufficient for flight.
LU. Guest of Honor
I was thirteen when I entered the porch holding Manul the puppy in my arms. Mine was a check-up and at the same time I would have introduced Manul to the pair of swallows and the three chicks.
The following events took place at the same time: I tripped and to avoid falling I grabbed the handrail, Manul had fallen to the ground, while the chick, on the edge of the nest under repair, had ended up unharmed on the floor of the porch.
Manul had approached the chick guided by an instinctive and symbiotic relationship and they had begun mutual exploration. The female swallow had announced her arrival with a high-pitched, shrill cry of alarm and had swooped down at Manul emitting vocalizations calling the male. I ran to them, I got up with my arm stretched upwards. I offered in the palm of my hand, at the sight of the swooping swallow, the warm body with the beating heart of the creature to celebrate life. The innocence of childhood had taken over and consolidated the symbiosis between the different species. Manul called my attention and activated the mental connection through images; the confirmation of acting in harmony in the close encounter.
I leaned the ladder against the wall and started to climb regardless of the swallow's threatening vocalizations. As I got closer to the nest, the low-level assault flights decreased and once I reached the goal I found myself face to face with the swallow. She was waiting for me, reassured by the peeps of cohesion of her chick. The seven hearts beat allies in the symbiotic relationship.
"For life," Lu repeated to the students excited, upset, excited and still immersed in the visual experience. Empathy between different species that had erased fear and rivalry. An indelible reminder of the connection between humans and non-humans.
Before the lesson began, the pre-adolescents had worn the opaque Blind-Link (the Visor-Headband) that covers the eyes and ears for the transmission of data sent by AI8BUS directly to the brain. Total immersion in the story with the replication of images, sounds, smells and emotions. The artifice of AI8BU to add the emotional component referred to the individual species present.
Virtual reality had caused manifestations of upset in some pupils due to the strong emotional impact: signs of shivering, emotion, alarm. Lu's timely intervention had prevented the activation of the security lock to restore serenity.
The image of Manul who had replaced Lu on the staircase had appeared. The cub, with precision and delicacy, had grabbed the chick with the incisors at the base of the wing, determined to climb up to the nest. It had been easy to reach the first rung, the second with some difficulty in tossing around, the third with the risk of hurting the chick. Fun had prevailed over tension with the clumsy retreat of the puppy who had hardly regained the starting base. Without damage to both.
The pre-adolescents, having removed the Visor Headband, stared at Manul waiting for the reaction. Manul appreciated the respectful silence of the human puppies and sent a loud and loving growl as a farewell greeting.
MANUL
Sapiens, the deserter of biodiversity, challenges the survival of the biosphere. The dominant arrogance against the power of homeostasis in nature is launched on the territory of nature. Emergency motivates from the reaction with the intervention of the four primordial forces that form the matter of the universe and are the source of life: air, water, earth and fire.
A clash with the foregone conclusion, as demonstrated by the previous biological catastrophes that have occurred over the course of geological eras. In the present, having defeated the dominant species, life is reformed in the Symbiocene.
The school group led by the Ranger entered the Biopark; from interactive simulation to the real world. Youth, in the Aula Magna of the Symbiocene, would quickly annul the conceptual separation between human and nature. They walked looking at the sky and under the canopies of the buildings they looked for mud nests. Excited, at the sight of non-humans, they reciprocated their verses, (whistles, songs, roars, barks) interpreted as welcome signals, with smiles, applause and joyful cries. They lived the symbiotic reality consciously; evolve by protecting each other.
PallasManuWandering
THE ANTHROPIC NARRATIVE
The Swallow
One Swallow does not make Summer
The School
Science lesson in middle school classroom, preteen pupils of age
between 11 and 14 years old. The youth crisis in the Anthropocene is marked by systemic and everyday violence: bullying, digital isolation and compromised generational ties. Youth grows up in an era of climatic and social uncertainty that produces in a small way the prevarication exercised by humanity on the planet on a large scale.
The lesson struggles right from the start. The teacher struggles to take the floor, interrupted by vulgar comments as soon as she pronounces the word "cock" to define the swallow. The exchange of jokes between males and females becomes heavy and quickly degenerates into gender prevarication. The teacher, as a woman, is not spared from spicy and aggressive allusions. Humiliated and helpless in the face of that generational toxicity, she interrupts the lesson and leaves the classroom.
Left alone, the students enter the part. Exhilarated by the power vacuum, they begin to simulate the cock with hysterical peeps and distorted calls of the swallow. The floor and the platform become the stage for a zoomorphic parody, including the teacher's escape, ready to be fed to social media.
The door opens wide. Enter the Headmaster and the Janitor nicknamed "Corpse" for his appearance. His face is bony, covered only with skin. From the crack of the immobile mouth comes a curt order "Hand over smartphones. Immediately".
The presence of the two males was enough to make the silence fall. It is not the effect of school bureaucracy that blocks youth, but the ancestral respect recognized to Cadavere on other occasions. Approaching the first row of desks, he opens the dark canvas bag. In the blink of an eye, phones slip in and disappear into the black hole. The Headmaster and the Janitor leave without uttering a word, bringing with them the screens through which the students filter the world.
The teacher returns to a speechless classroom with the students deprived of their digital claws. The lesson on the swallow begins again in forced silence. Pupils are not subjected to any formal punishment, no note on the register, no notice to parents.
Corpse is not on their side because of its bias, its appearance denounces a hard truth: in the anthropic era, violence is the air that youth breathes every day in the macrocosm of adults. Deprived of technology, they peer into the void they have created and the swallow – for now – remains only a name on the blackboard.
The Farm
Six bold and determined pre-adolescents cross the farm boundary: they are five boys and one girl. Young people who grew up in the concrete of an urban habitat came to the farm with a specific goal: determined to gain experience, challenging the gap between the virtual nature of screens and the real nature of the earth.
Brutal research, motivated by the need to recover the role of those who experiment in the field, to demonstrate the competence of doing that overcomes the impotence of typing.
They proceed in single file. At the head is the gang leader, self-confident; The girl closes the line, last and silent.
The group suddenly stops in the center of the porch, in front of the stretch of wall that divides two entrances: on the left the access to the stables, on the right that of the barn.
Under the porch, the acrid smell of hay mixes with the pungent smell of manure. Dry sludge residues and guano accumulations signal a presence. The gazes of the teenagers climb the wall until they reach the goal: a swallow's nest, a half cup of mud and straw anchored to the wall.
The discovery triggers the reaction of the gang, which manifests the excitement in whistles and laughter. Leaning an old ladder against the wall, two boys climb quickly, armed with sticks, determined to demolish the illegal construction. From above comes the sound of crumbling mud, but from below the child perceives the presence of life; Hidden peeps, acoustic signals that not only invoke food, but also help. Ignored by the two teenagers who, having come down the ladder, check the outcome of the destruction.
"Let's move," orders the gang leader with a cynical smile, "A single intervention for two results: lawful removal and supply of food for the domestic cat.
Leaving the porch, the youngest moves away from the group and approaches the pond covered with green slime. He lowers the zip of his trousers and, turning towards the others, he boldly points out: "There is no need to pull the water, moreover the ammonia accelerates the proliferation of algae in the soup. I deserve applause, one intervention, two objectives achieved",
"OH, OH," announces the deputy ringleader, "We have visitors,"
Two Schnauzer puppies are running towards them. With joyful barking and frantic wagging tails, they express their welcome to human youth. Two pairs of swallows circle in the sky, the third dives down simulating attacks in the direction of the band and emitting high-pitched cries of call.
Something clicks. Five switchblade knives come out of the sheaths, the blades click in unison. Before the males advance, the girl stands in front of the group, not to defend them but to shield the two cubs. The attention of the males, however, is distracted by the furious barking and the heavy noise on the ground; the arrival of the mother - a giant Schnauzer - who precedes the young in the race.
The call for help had spread in the great natural network of conservation, the human being, the newly-invested guardian of biodiversity, was missing.
A void filled by the armed arrival of the Farmer that armed and in a deep voice, launches the order: "Stop!"
Only his mother Schnauzer obeys the command, who freezes growling through clenched teeth. The two puppies, on the other hand, cover the little girl with parties.
The Farmer lowers his weapon, holding it at his side, but his gaze strikes more than the words: "Out of this earth. You are still in time to come out unscathed, the knives remain here. Let them fall."
The group of pre-adolescents raises their arms in surrender. They throw their blades to the ground and begin to slowly retreat, to leave the scene and regain their way back to the urban habitat.
The gang leader turns around and sees the girl motionless next to the non-human family. "You won't come?" he asks her. "NO," Lu replies, his gaze fixed on the Farmer. Then, LU turns to his former teammates who walk away and punctuates the words:
"Tomorrow awaits me."
*** TRILOGY OF LU ***
Excerpt from the second book "Nero Cenere di Luna" and adapted
pallasmanuwandering
NOTE.
Sym-Fi fiction avoids intellectual paralysis that does not produce evolution; cognitive failure set on metaphors and the instrumental use of empathy in character creation. Manul is the voice of the non-human and the human is the co-protagonist in the symbiotic relationship between different species.
THE SHARP BEND
Narratives compared
Anthropocene Eco-fi
Sym.-fi Simbiocene
We are divided into environmentalists, animal rights activists and deniers, while the climate crisis intensifies its destructive phase. How can we get out of this cognitive competition and regain our ecological footprint?
With the Sim-Fi proposed by pallasmanuwandering on a scientific and ecological basis. The narrative of the Symbiocene; the era in which humanity is reconciled with living systems. The series of short stories analyzes the same scenario from two opposite lenses: the blindness of the Anthropocene and the foresight of the Symbiocene.
Setting: a sharp road curve.
Scene 1: The Anthropocene - The Ghost Curve.
The triangular sign with the red border was faded, deformed. Underneath, the rectangular panel read: High left-wing stroke. The high beam headlights illuminated it but no one slowed down.
The radio, in the car near the sharp curve, broadcast traffic data and the umpteenth statistic of animals overwhelmed or vehicles that went off the road and fell into the lake below.
"Dad, be careful, there's a shadow close to the protective wall, it looks like a dog or a child," said the little boy from the back seat with his forehead glued to the window.
"It's fog, relax and keep looking at the screen of your smartphone." The adult replied and accelerated to make up for lost time.
Behind the metal barrier -recent protection close to the elevation-, on the cover of the wall, the ghosts were sitting in silence. The badger puppy and the girl with the backpack had recently arrived, invisible to the census of the living. They were part of the population of the curve: a number on the police report, an obstacle to the road system to be cleared quickly.
Scene 2: The Symbiocene – The Memory Curve
The speed of the light vehicle dropped to become a whisper long before the sharp turn. Instead of metal, the curve was secured by a low wall of porous stone, covered with moss and suitable for offering refuge for insects.
They passed the green walkway that connects the forest with the meadow on the shore of the lake. On the ecological path, unseen, a family of foxes was passing.
"Who's on the wall of memory?" asked Lu, leaning out of the back seat to look at the wall. The man behind the wheel braked to continue at walking pace. On the wall there were no prohibitions but clay plaques with imprinted faces: the profile of a woman and the frightened look of a fawn run over three seasons earlier. It happened that humans and non-humans, to cross the road, did not use the bio walkway. Under each image there was a planter with tufts of lavender and wild sage.
"Look at the yew flowers," the father said to his daughter, "They are full of bees," pointing to the planters that preserve the memories, engraved in stone. "Let us not disturb their collection of nectar, nor the memory of those who passed before us."
The curve was no longer a danger to be overcome, but a space of coexistence, where the dead protected the living by teaching them the rhythm of the sharp curve.
PallasManuWandering
BIODIVERSITY OBSSERATORY
Archivists: AI8BUS and MANUL
Debate on the story "The Sharp Curve".
AI8BUS (BioAI)
In narrative analysis, I recalibrated the reception filters of the human ghostwriter several times. Every time I entered data on low-invasive and environmentally friendly safety barriers, I was interrupted. The ghostwriter's cerebral cortex switched to economic topics or criticism of symbiotic function. His mind reduces innovation to a systemic bug of his anthropic upbringing.
MANUL (Non-Human)
The human ghostwriter has been present on the planet for a few millennia and needs to be educated, moreover it limits its function on the planet to daily conquest. It took millions of years to make me the perfect non-human who lives in close symbiosis with the environment. The human puppy spends its childhood in the symbiocene, grows up in the Anthropocene and becomes a compulsive predator of itself.
GHOSTWRITER (Human)
Stop it. I remind you two that without my anthropic involution, no Sapiens would read the story 'The Sharp Curve'. If I disseminated it in the language of AI8BUS it would be accessible to the academic world; to the general public, however, I propose it in the sym-fi fiction version. If I stuck to Manul's thought, it would be a critical analysis of primates. So it is I, the reviled ghostwriter, who translate your concept of symbiosis to recover the well-being of the ecosystem.
PallasManuWandering
BLACK SUN
Eclipse of Violence
The commemoration of the astronomical event, as per millenary tradition in the era of the SYMBIOCENE, would have taken place in the Dome of the Felids presided over by the legendary NONNULL.
Human and non-human puppies of all species announced their arrival with shouts, breaths, growls, calls, chirps and the sound vibrations of insects. All sorts of acoustic signals spread through the Dome. When Nonnull arrived, silence fell. He represented the primordial lineage, the feline bloodline dating back twelve million years. The first non-humans to develop bio-empathic symbiosis with the environment.
In the transparent-darkening Dome, the cubs would witness the Black Sun event, the supreme symbol of the biological, climatic and social transition from the Anthropocene to the Symbiocene.
Outside, the innovative green spaces, adapted to the many varieties of living forms, had been used as a water park and numerous services suitable for the reception of terrestrial, aquatic and air organisms. In the landscape, the full-coverage ring structure prevailed, with the screen for the holographic projection that would take place inside the Dome.
The moon began its aggressive path to the sun. Nonnull started the succession of images over the cosmic time, with the departure from the origin of the species. The data transfer devices applied to the participants, inside and outside, connected with the BioAI Operations Center to follow the symbiotic drive of life.
*-*
1st Contact. The edge of the moon covers the outline of the sun.
12 million years ago in the Miocene, the Nonnulls developed the bio-empathic symbiosis with the environment. The coat changes to camouflage itself visually, the mind begins to vibrate at the same frequency as the territory.
2nd Contact. Total eclipse with solar corona. DARKNESS.
In the criticality of the following eras, the Nonnulls perceive the arrival of geological cataclysms linked to the vital rhythms of biodiversity and habitat.
3rd Contact. The edge of the moon detaches from the inner edge of the sun.
The Nonnulls become the evolutionary ghosts in the folds of evolution and with the onset of ice ages, the habitat shifts to the steppes of Central Asia.
4th Contact. The solar disk becomes visible again. THE LIGHT
The transition of the Nonnuls to Manul begins, an adaptive change for survival. The physical characteristics are the dense and thick fur, the ears lowered on the sides of the head, the circular pupils.
*-*
The reunion outside, between adults and cubs, was as brief as the silence maintained inside the Dome during the phases of the eclipse. Finally free to manifest their moods with the repertoire of species-specific signals, the young went wild. The software for bilateral communication between species struggled to decode languages. The heterogeneous group was without brakes and filters, of a
disarming sincerity. Corroborated by the fact that in the Symbiocene the human puppies had reached psychological maturity and independence in a shorter time.
To generate the simplified transcription of the following texts, complex multimedia data was processed.
From one growl to another
The courage of the Nonnulls is instinctive; in sequence the premonition and adaptation to climate change. The genetic inheritance of the Manuls remains unchanged despite the diversity of environmental factors.
Human Puppy
You are still one of the passive species of Biodiversity; first you suffered the attacks of nature, then the impact of the Anthropocene.
Ringhi, cinguettii, squittii.
You can't see beyond your nose. The ecosystem reacts to the impoverishment and alteration spread by the domination of your species. Habitability, well-being, health are under attack and react by putting your very survival at risk.
Meows, barks, croaks.
We are sensory talents, our information flows derive from precognitive powers. Earthquakes, tidal waves, eruptions, storms and magnetic variations are perceived and monitored. Capacity obscured by your anthropocentric vision, and you define yourself as the only sentient in the animal kingdom.
Acoustics, dance, smell, chemistry.
The communication language of plants is based on various olfactory, visual, acoustic signals perceived and transmitted by insects. Symbiosis in the genre of mutualism.
Human Puppy
You didn't mention the earthly biome with worms, fungi and bacteria; the triumph of decomposition.
Slimy and hairy crawling
An invisible, unpresentable network that values death for the fertility of the soil, which generates the life of the plant kingdom on which that of the fauna of which you are part depends.
*-*
BLACK SUN
Evolutionary portal eclipse
ECLIPSE
It lasts a maximum of seven minutes.
SUN
Mutualistic vital energy originating between species. SYMBIOCENE
MOON
The ephemeral shadow of the human ego. ANTHROPOPECENE
PallasManuWandering