28 Saturday Nov 2015
“The word ‘cybernetic’ comes from the Greek root ‘cyber’, meaning ‘to govern’. Computer technology allows multinational corporations to govern and manipulate in an insidious and ubiquitous way, to channel our frustrations, to stop us from asking fundamental questions”.
Françoise d’Eaubonne
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13 Friday Nov 2015
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“The neo-liberal attempt to subordinate every form of life and knowledge to the logic of the market has heightened our awareness of the danger of living in a world in which we no longer have access to seas, trees, animals, and our fellow beings except through the cash-nexus”.
Silvia Federici, Feminism And the Politics of the Commons
23 Friday Oct 2015
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“Reason in the western tradition has been constructed as the privileged domain of the master, who has conceived nature as a wife or subordinate other encompassing and representing the sphere of materiality, subsistence and the feminine which the master has split off and constructed as beneath him”.
Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature
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21 Tuesday Jul 2015
“We must find ways to rework our concepts and practices of human virtue and identity as they have been conceived, since at least the time of the Greeks, as exclusive of and discontinuous with the devalued orders of the feminine, of subsistence, of materiality and of non-human nature”
Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature
17 Friday Jul 2015
Posted in civilization, feminism, nature
“More and more people began to experience nature as altered and manipulated by machine technology. A slow but unidirectional alienation from the immediate daily organic relationship that had formed the basis of human experience from earliest times was occurring”
Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
