Comments on: kinship of all life… *sigh* http://www.strangechord.com/2005/03/10/kinship-of-all-life-sigh/ ...reverberating Fri, 18 May 2012 07:33:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Pamela http://www.strangechord.com/2005/03/10/kinship-of-all-life-sigh/#comment-12491 Mon, 14 Mar 2005 20:05:32 +0000 http://www.strangechord.com/2005/03/10/kinship-of-all-life-sigh/#comment-12491 Emily, I absolutely WILL read Derrick Jensen this summer, and I urge you to read Donna Haraway's "Simians, Cyborgs and Women," it is so up your alley! Haraway's notion of situated knowledges has totally rocked my world! :-) Emily,

I absolutely WILL read Derrick Jensen this summer, and I urge you to read Donna Haraway’s “Simians, Cyborgs and Women,” it is so up your alley!

Haraway’s notion of situated knowledges has totally rocked my world! :-)

]]> by: Watermark http://www.strangechord.com/2005/03/10/kinship-of-all-life-sigh/#comment-12607 Mon, 14 Mar 2005 04:52:32 +0000 http://www.strangechord.com/2005/03/10/kinship-of-all-life-sigh/#comment-12607 <strong>This Family . . .</strong> [Click images for larger size] This Family . . .

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]]> by: Emily http://www.strangechord.com/2005/03/10/kinship-of-all-life-sigh/#comment-12490 Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:58:12 +0000 http://www.strangechord.com/2005/03/10/kinship-of-all-life-sigh/#comment-12490 I agree with you, Pamela, and the line "Science has something much wiser to tell us about who we are" irked me as well. I don't stand by that at all. The final paragraph up until the last two sentences are what I liked most. I agree with you, Pamela, and the line “Science has something much wiser to tell us about who we are” irked me as well. I don’t stand by that at all. The final paragraph up until the last two sentences are what I liked most.

]]> by: Pamela http://www.strangechord.com/2005/03/10/kinship-of-all-life-sigh/#comment-12489 Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:54:41 +0000 http://www.strangechord.com/2005/03/10/kinship-of-all-life-sigh/#comment-12489 A lovely article with some very good points about the variety of personalities in the animal kingdom, of which we are surely another animal. My only caveat would be for this author to be careful of scientific reductionism in terms of a genetically pre-determined personality. I have been studying this very topic in a wonderful course on Science, Nature and Culture. When personality is relegated to a concept of a genetic pre-determinism (even as 90% of DNA is "junk DNA" or strands not linked to geno/phenotype, and phenotypes are extremely variable even with a genetic determinant), or an evolutionary compulsion, we deliver the actions of humans and animals directly into an informatics of domination. An instinctual or pre-determined personality is extremely bio-political. "Science has something much wiser to tell us about who we are." This statement particularly caught my attention, since I believe science is only one component of the situated knowledges that advise who, or what, any animal is. A lovely article with some very good points about the variety of personalities in the animal kingdom, of which we are surely another animal.

My only caveat would be for this author to be careful of scientific reductionism in terms of a genetically pre-determined personality. I have been studying this very topic in a wonderful course on Science, Nature and Culture. When personality is relegated to a concept of a genetic pre-determinism (even as 90% of DNA is “junk DNA” or strands not linked to geno/phenotype, and phenotypes are extremely variable even with a genetic determinant), or an evolutionary compulsion, we deliver the actions of humans and animals directly into an informatics of domination. An instinctual or pre-determined personality is extremely bio-political.

“Science has something much wiser to tell us about who we are.” This statement particularly caught my attention, since I believe science is only one component of the situated knowledges that advise who, or what, any animal is.

]]> by: Jeremy http://www.strangechord.com/2005/03/10/kinship-of-all-life-sigh/#comment-12488 Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:19:26 +0000 http://www.strangechord.com/2005/03/10/kinship-of-all-life-sigh/#comment-12488 Very interesting, but the article doesn't appear to be available at nytimes.com anymore. Very interesting, but the article doesn’t appear to be available at nytimes.com anymore.

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