“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Friday, April 8, 2011

New School Symposium Liveblog 7

Troubles with critique. Troubles with just talking about Swedish social democracy. And just talking about Allende's three minutes!

Karen: my and Daemian's use of the post. She works on climate change. She grew up “after Mauss” and “after Derrida.” There is no gift, the gift is impossible. We have to think about time when we study global warming. When did the post begin?

(Some language from me.)

Daemian: there is some problematic science.

We Have Never Been Modern. Latour vacillates between “we were always hybrid” and “nonhuman objects woke us up.”

“We have always been hybrid.” Most ecological history is saying that we have been productively shaping landscapes for millennia. Clark Erickson: Amazon was gardened. Ecological discourse veiled the extent of that making.

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