Ah, this task of assembling inspirations : how can one grasp/catch spirits that fly by at any given moment and have them to make themselves known ? 'The greedy and powerful .. shit on memory, including the memory of language itself, which is our first heritage', writes John Berger in an essay on Pasolini. Meaning (for me, in this context) : memory is a buildup of inspirations ; to still inspirations you have to go back to the very first moments of your existence ; later on new voices will familiarize ... like the two mentioned, Berger and Pasolini, and many, many, uncountable other voices ... Inspiration is like the smoke of a woodfire ; it fills your clothes, flesh, fiber, memory. To catch inspiration is an impossible task. Yet, here are some of our most appreciated sources of inspiration. And 'for giving credit to others for their ideas', see for example Citational Practice.

Downstream. Reimagining Water, Dorothy Christian & Rita Wong, Waterloo Canada 2017 Contributions from a.o. Lee Maracle, Astrica Neimanis, Radha D'Souza, Janine Macleod

The ocean in us, Epeli Hau'ofa (Tonga, Fiji), 1998

Omeros, Derek Walcott (Saint Lucia) , 1990

Texaco, Patrick Chamoiseau (Martinique), 1992

When the roots start moving. To navigate backward? Resonating with zapatisme, Chto Delat, Berlin 2021 Chto Delat is a group of artists, philosophers, activists and writers, founded in St Petersburg

Poetics of Relation, Edouard Glissant (Martinique), Uni Michigan 2010

Bodies of water. Posthuman feminist phenomenology, Astrida Neimanis, 2017 Bodies of water

The lie of the land, Paul Carter, London 1996, The lie of the land

Decolonizing Nature. Contemporary art and the politicis of ecology, TJ Demos, Berlin 2016

Place, Tacita Dean & Jeremy Millar, London 2005

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Princeton 2015

The Blue Commons. Rescuing the Economy of the Sea, Guy Standing, UK 2022

The Urbanisation of the Sea, Nancy Couling & Carola Hein, Rotterdam 2020

Prospecting Ocean, Armin Linke, exhibition, 2018 and book by Stephanie Hessler

Allegories of the Anthropocene, Elizabeth DeLoughrey, 2019 - Towards a Critical Ocean Studies for the Anthropocene, Elizabeth Deloughrey, 2019

Staying with the trouble. Making kin in the Chthulucene, Donna Haraway, 2016

Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor, Rob Nixon, 2011 - Slow violence, Errant Journal #2, Amsterdam 2021

Imperialism in the Indo-Pacific—An Introduction, John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark, July 2024 - Monthly Review

Open veins of Latin America, Eduardo Galeano, 1997

The Fatal Shore. A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, Robert Hughes, London 2003

The happy isles of Oceania. Paddling the Pacific, Paul Theroux, 1992

and also : Lauren Berlant ; Fredric Jameson ; Alexander Kluge ; Bruno Latour ; Arturo Escobar ; Walter Rodney ; Frantz Fanon ; Paolo Freire etc etc ...........