<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Spectres,<br><br>let me remind you of the 25 years long existence of the <b>International Institute of Geopoetics</b> founded in 1989 by the waybook writer, poet & thinker Kenneth White.<div><br></div><div>Geopoetics : a theory-practice for a time of lack.<br><br><i>The world is in a wretched state.<br><br>Whole areas and elements of the physical environment are disappearing before our eyes.<br><br>Rather than settle into comfortable despair or mindless inanity, our desire is to open up a world with some depth of life.<br><br>This means a rediscovery of the Earth, which includes ecology, but goes further, into questions of existence and culture.<br><br>For there to be anything like real culture, humanity needs, beyond its historically dictated differences, a common basis.<br><br>All that and more is implied in geopoetics, a theory-practise invented and developed by Kenneth White, conceptualised in his essays, illustrated in his nomadic waybooks, expressed in his outward-moving poetry.<br><br>The aim of the International Institute of Geopoetics is to present various inroads of knowledge into this field and bring together all those who see in it a horizon of possibility.<br><br>A wide range of texts and documents will be available on our site, enabling anyone interested to deepen his or her understanding of geopoetics and spread the idea.</i><br><br><br>So please, have a look at the new website available<br><br>in english <a href="http://institut-geopoetique.org/en/">http://institut-geopoetique.org/en/</a><br><br>in french <a href="http://institut-geopoetique.org/fr/">http://institut-geopoetique.org/fr/</a><br><br>in spanish <a href="http://institut-geopoetique.org/es/">http://institut-geopoetique.org/es/</a><br><br>in portugees <a href="http://institut-geopoetique.org/pt/">http://institut-geopoetique.org/pt/</a><br><br>in italian <a href="http://institut-geopoetique.org/it/">http://institut-geopoetique.org/it/</a><br><br>in vietnamese <a href="http://institut-geopoetique.org/vi/">http://institut-geopoetique.org/vi/</a><br><br>read, share & join us ;)<br><br>best<br><br>Régis<br><br></div>
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