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Beneath the circuits, the tree of life

By ~LS~ On March 31, 2010 · Add Comment · In Random Musings, Technology, This is my life? and tagged Tagged With: Haraway, Tattoos, Technoculture

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The Pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons Crowd

By ~LS~ On August 23, 2008 · 1 Comment · In Humor, Politics and tagged Tagged With: D&D, Geek, Haraway, Obama, Political Humor

Finally! Something I’m not too behind the curve on!

Apparently a McCain aide, Michael Goldfarb, made a disparaging remark about us Pro-Obama D&D players on McCain’s blog. (IMO most D&D players are libertarians, but that’s just anecdotal.) Here’s the comment:

It may be typical of the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd to disparage a fellow countryman’s memory of war from the comfort of mom’s basement, but most Americans have the humility and gratitude to respect and learn from the memories of men who suffered on behalf of others. John McCain has often said he witnessed a thousand acts of bravery while he was imprisoned, and though not every one has been submitted into the public record, they are remembered by the men who were there (one such only recently reported by Karl Rove though it escaped mention in any of Senator McCain’s books). But as [...]

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Christian the Lion

By ~LS~ On August 20, 2008 · Add Comment · In The Web and tagged Tagged With: Haraway, Technoculture

I just saw the viral video of Christian the Lion. It made me sniffle. I almost cried. It is about a lion cub who was domesticated and then re-released in the wild. The story reminded me of “Born Free,” a movie from the 1960s (and it’s quintessential 60s, too). It turns out that the guy who “Born Free” was about helped re-release Christian to the wild. The viral video is a touching reunion between Christian and his caretakers. It made me think of Haraway’s notion of “companion species” and “respecere.” Clearly this animal and his caretakers were in a relationship of respect, communion, and face. Fascinating stuff. There are a couple of versions of the video floating around in the ether, different only in their saccharine soundtracks. Turn the sound off as you watch the video.

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When Species Meet — Chapters 3 and 4

By ~LS~ On July 26, 2008 · 1 Comment · In Rhetoric and tagged Tagged With: Haraway, Pets, Rhetoric, Science, Technoculture

I don’t really have much commentary on Chapter 4. I saw it as a case study in science studies and caring for animals situated within breeding pedigree dogs. Maybe I’m missing something. As for Chapter 3, I struggled with this chapter more than with other chapters. So first I’m gonna spin out what I got from the chapter (without the nuances, which would add years to this process).

Chapter 3

The chapter is about how we deal ethically with other non-human species, specifically lab animals. “Instrumental action with animals is not the enemy” – sometimes we have to have lab animals. This puts her on very dangerous territory with PETA and animal rights activists, as she says. The crux of this chapter IMO is how to construct a rationale for her position that fits within what is ethical or conscionable to her. Given what she has written thus far about [...]

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David Harvey, Marx, Haraway

By ~LS~ On July 25, 2008 · Add Comment · In Rhetoric and tagged Tagged With: Capitalism, Haraway, Rhetoric, Technoculture

Yesterday I found the greatest link to DavidHarvey.org. David Harvey is a professor of Geography at CUNY. He’s a marxist, and a prolific writer (ten books), including one I read called The Condition of Postmodernity, and he’s wicked smart. Every year for the past…who knows how many years, he teaches a course that is a close reading of VOl. I of Capital. Last year, someone recorded his lectures on 13 videos and now you can see them on his website. I spent two hours today listening to the introduction to the class, which covered a close reading of the first six pages of the book. I took five typed pages of notes. Mostly what Harvey discussed was how to read Marx, using the first section of Chapter 1 as a model. He emphasized repeatedly the dynamism involved in reading Marx’s notion of the commodity as a [...]

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Threes

By ~LS~ On July 20, 2008 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Gratitudes, Haraway, Threes

Last three movies I’ve seen

1. The Dark Knight
2. Hellboy II
3. Wanted

Three things I don’t want to do this summer, but I have to:

1. Go to Disney (again).
2. Serve on search committees at school.
3. Read the new public speaking textbook.

Three cool quotes from Donna Haraway:

1. Rage is not relativism in the sense that either facts or fictions are matters of “personal” opinion or “multicultural” difference. Quite the opposite. The colonialist epistemological dualisms of relativism and realism require tropic swerving in a spirit of love and rage. Anarchists knew that kind of thing; and anarchists made strong knowledge claims, not vapid truces. In the face of many established disorders we need to practice saying “none of the above.” (p. 3, Intro to Haraway Reader).

2. Michael Foucault’s biopolitics is a flaccid premonition of cyborg politics, a very [...]

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