Zachary Herring

Looking through a kaleidoscopic lens that blends evolutionary theory, diasporic fugitive practice, science in vivo, and environmentalism, the intention of Zachary’s research is to help begin collapsing the distance between the “Self” and the “Other.” As polarization grows globally, his focus centers around better understanding what makes “sustainable community,” by exploring the parallels between “liberal” and “conservative” forms of festivity, the performance of family, and the various adaptive and maladaptive responses to feelings of dis-belonging. It is Zachary’s hope that through his work, he might do his part in revealing a “new” yet “ancient” sociality that has the capacity to destabilize the utility of individualism, through the return to an interdependent, supra-familial ancestral form. One that necessarily re-embeds humanity within a nonnegotiable interconnected bio-physical/spiritual world.