February 2012
4 posts
“So agri-economic activity does not have to be seen as a threat to nature;...”
– Jones, Owain et al, “On the Alternativeness of Alternative Food Networks: Sustainability and the Co-production of Social and Ecological Wealth,” Interrogating Alterity: Alternative Economic and Political Spaces, p. 103.
(via andrewfm)
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“The social sciences… have a much more useful role than that of defining,...”
– Bruno Latour (2004) Politics of nature, p.225-226
January 2012
28 posts
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“In other areas the process of reduction is a move in the direction of greater...”
– Thomas Nagel (1979) What is it like to be a bat?
Politics
andrewfm:
interruptions:
so-meta:
The more money you cut to poor and young people, apparently the “smarter” your government automatically becomes!
The more draconian and brutal the cuts, the more “serious” the politician proposing them.
The more money you give to rich people, the more “prosperous” your country becomes.
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“Life does not contain just one purpose of one drama but many interwoven ones....”
– Mary Midgley, Persons and non-persons, from http://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-m/midgley01.pdf (couldn’t find the original)
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“Equality is a moral ideal, not a simple assertion of fact. There is no logically...”
–
Peter Singer (1989) All animals are equal. In (eds.) Regan, Tom and Peter Singer, Animal Rights and Human Obligations, p.83.
Also available: http://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-m/singer02.htm
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“Philosophers frequently introduce ideas of dignity, respect, and worth at the...”
– Peter Singer (1989) All animals are equal. In (eds.) Regan, Tom and Peter Singer, Animal Rights and Human Obligations, p.83.
Also available: http://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-m/singer02.htm
“I think there are some very important questions we need to ask about religion in...”
– Vine Deloria, in conversation with Derrick Jensen in Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control (via cultureofresistance)
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“Many of the authors in this collection have some affiliation to Bristol (p.3)...”
– Kenneth R. Olwig (2011) A book review of Ben Anderson and Paul Harrison (eds), Taking-Place:Non-Representational Theories and Geography. Farnham:Ashgate, 2010. In Progress in Human Geography 35(6)
Will not be putting up quotes regularly, if at all from hereon - got to start writing!
“The invention of the camera also changed the way in which men saw paintings...”
– John Berger (1972) Ways of seeing.
“When the camera reproduces a painting, it destroys the uniqueness of its image....”
– John Berger (1972) Ways of Seeing
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“I am not so interested in prodding the rhetorical silliness of this sneer - not...”
– Neil Smith (1998) Re-enchanting nature. In Braun B and Castree N (eds.) Remaking reality: nature at the millennium, p.274 and 276 On the Science Wars
“Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free...”
– Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism (1993), p.7 (via verticaltime)
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“The displacement of the representation is geographical as well as metaphorical....”
– Michael Woods (2000) Fantastic Mr Fox? Representing animals in the hunting debate. In Philo C and Wilbert C (eds.) Animal spaces, beastly places, p.200
“Libertarianism becomes self-defeating as soon as it recognises the existence of...”
– George Monbiot - ‘Why libertarians must deny climate change, in one short take’ (via guardian)
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“…Representation is not just a re-presentation – the reproduction of an object in...”
– Michael Woods (2000) Fantastic Mr Fox? Representing animals in the hunting debate. In Philo C and Wilbert C (eds.) Animal spaces, beastly places, p.183
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“It is unclear, however, why animal rights activists should be expected to occupy...”
– M Humphrey and M Stears (2006) Animal rights protest and the challenge to deliberative democracy. Economy and society 35(3), p.412
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Revival of Psychogeography →
Psychogeography is hot. Guy Debord, founding member of Situationist Internationaland the man who coined the term in 1955, defined the phenomenon as “the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals”. In fact, psychogeography is the art of strolling, or just about anything that gets...
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“Animal rights activists currently inhabit a space immediately behind Islamic...”
– Humphrey and Stears (2006) Animal rights protest and the challenge to deliberative democracy. Economy and society 35(3), p.401
Are you kidding me?
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“If we do not engage in these struggles, we abandon them to those who use Nature...”
– Margaret Fitzsimmons (1989) The matter of nature. Antipode 21, p.117
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“For as we practise our trade as intellectuals, the premiums we place on...”
– John Law (1999) After ANT: complexity, naming and topology. In Law J and Hassard J (eds.) Actor network theory and after, p.9
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“But, if constructing the future and settling everything for all times are not...”
– Karl Marx (via sociologic)
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“People often tend to misrecognise as ‘natural’ the settings that...”
– Kay Anderson (1995) Culture and nature at the Adelaide Zoo: at the frontiers of ‘human’ geography. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 20:275-294
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“Have theory, will travel.”
–
John Law (1999) After ANT: complexity, naming and topology. In Law J and Hassard J (eds.) Actor network theory and after
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“The relationship between animals and modernity can be construed as a gigantic...”
– Michael Watts (2000) Afterword: Enclosure. In Philo C and Wilbert C (eds.) Animals Spaces, Beastly Places, p.293
December 2011
52 posts
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“When the Other dissolves in the Many, the first thing to dissolve is the Face....”
– Z Bauman (1993) Postmodern Ethics, p.115
“The less you think about your oppression, the...
– Assata Shakur
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“Our constructions of individual animals depend on a complex overlaying of...”
– Oswain Jones (2000) (Un)ethical geographies of human-non-human relations: Encounters, collectives, and spaces. In Philo C and Wilbert C (eds.) Animal Spaces, Beastly Places, p.280
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“The aim of actor-network analysis should not be to stand back from the political...”
– Holifield R (2009) Actor-Network Theory as a Critical Approach to Environmental Justice: A Case against Synthesis with Urban Political Ecology. Antipode 41(4), 637-658.
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“Queer or polyamorous dolphin sex is represented as an amusing oddity and as...”
– Besio K, Johnston L, and Longhurst R (2008) Sexy beasts and devoted mums: narrating nature through dolphin tourism. Environment and Planning A 40: p. 1225
“We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing – an actor, a writer – I am a...”
– (via fuckyeahstephenfry)
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“Moritz, the Barbary ape, and Fritz, the German shepherd dog, will have...”
– Louis de Bernieres (2004) Fritz and Mortiz Accidentally Change History. In Birds Without Wings, New York, USA: Random House, p.450
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“The importance of animals in nature-society relations rest in their own right...”
– Cloke P and Perkins HC (2005) Cetacean performance and tourism in Kaikoura, New Zealand. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 23:903-924
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“I also felt strongly that there was a deadly drawback in classified work. Once...”
– Karen Pryor (2000) Lads before the wind: diary of a dolphin trainer, p. 262
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“Who comes to watch who here? Is there, somewhere in the sunless abyss of the...”
– Grzelewski D (2002) The town that whales built. New Zealand Geographic July, p.34
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“What entitles us to attribute intentionality to non-machines in the first place?...”
– Woolgar, 1991:91, cited in Risan LC (2005) The boundary of animality. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 23:787-793
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“I do not think it is possible to be agnostic about where to find phenomena such...”
– Risan LC (2005) The boundary of animality. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 23:787-793
On being careful when applying ‘symmetry’ to studying actants in a network, and the dangers of reducing things simply to their relations, nothing but effects and producers of networks,...
“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love...”
– Voltaire (via phredosophy)