tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1438289051411770399.post6113641706129936805..comments2024-03-28T09:51:55.365-06:00Comments on ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: Humankind 5: Object-Oriented Marxism and Racism and SpeciesismTimothy Mortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05067377804366363020noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1438289051411770399.post-14690531595022527692016-01-18T14:33:17.869-06:002016-01-18T14:33:17.869-06:00That is interesting. I have been kicking around th...That is interesting. I have been kicking around the idea for a bit about speciesism arising from a perceived similarity to not the physical form of other hominids, but instead from a recognized parity between human cognition and spirituality to the senses and thoughts of animals. This is where, from the point of view of neolithic peoples through the present, I situate a sort of abstracted Uncanny Valley effect. My theory is that the human sees this, freaks out, recognized immanence and has been psychically forced to construct a mythology of speciesism in order to perpetuate a hierarchy of dominance. This construct of mine arose out of the problem of how to persuade law enforcement and legislators that animals suffer and perceive and sense (no "sentient" is too little a word here for what is purports to say) in de-anthropocentrized terms. It gets back to comparisons of likes and when they are truly 'alike' and Martin's Act, ritual slaughter, and Animal Deities, and fetshized animal masks and a lot of what Freud and Jung may have missed (more what Freud missed). This attempts to explain a problem left unsolved in my last publication. In other words where systems based upon agency end. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1438289051411770399.post-50761206504756092102016-01-18T10:29:02.974-06:002016-01-18T10:29:02.974-06:00Your colleague Jean Joseph Goux's _Symbolic Ec...Your colleague Jean Joseph Goux's _Symbolic Economies: After Marx and Freud _ (published in the 80s I think) does groovy stuff with matter in relation to spirit, phallus, etc. I can't wait to see what happens in your hands. <br />D. E.M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05547424481936255550noreply@blogger.com