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When Species Meet

By ~LS~ On July 11, 2008 · 1 Comment · In Rhetoric and tagged Tagged With: Haraway, Technoculture

I’m reading Donna Haraway’s _When Species Meet_ with Loretta. We had a great discussion of the first chapter over breakfast this morning. The book is a solid choice for us to read because she’s a science-y person and a dog person and I’m a Haraway person, so it’s a nice “collision” of our interests. I’m enjoying the book. The first chapter (and it appears to be true for the rest of the book) is almost light reading compared to Haraway’s other work. It’s still her typical methodology of hauling in everything and the kitchen sink into a cat’s cradle analysis of some interesting point of departure, in this case dog food, or a picture of a tree stump that resembles a dog, etc. And it’s still her lovely writing, with beautiful sentences:

Whom and what do I touch when I touch my dog? … My premise is that touch ramifies [...]

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By ~LS~ On July 10, 2008 · Add Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Politics, War

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Pentacostalgon

By ~LS~ On July 9, 2008 · 1 Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Politics, Religion

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Wall-E

By ~LS~ On July 6, 2008 · 2 Comments · In Capitalism, Politics, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Consumption, Movies, Pop Culture

I liked the movie Wall-E. I didn’t love it, the way so many people do. But I liked it. I thought the message about the environment, consumption, and technology was an obvious one. One that a six year old and maybe even a four year old would get. But Frank Rich of the NYT waxes rhapsodic about the movie in the context of this year’s political campaign. He writes:

One of the great things about art, including popular art, is that it can hit audiences at a profound level beyond words. That includes children. The kids at “Wall-E” were never restless, despite the movie’s often melancholy mood and few belly laughs. They seemed to instinctually understand what “Wall-E” was saying; they didn’t pepper their chaperones with questions along the way. At the end they clapped their small hands. What they applauded was not some banal cartoonish triumph of good [...]

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The Shitty Way We Treat Our Vets

By ~LS~ On July 4, 2008 · 2 Comments · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Politics, War

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