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Quote for the day – November 28

28 Saturday Nov 2015

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Françoise d'Eaubonne, technology

 

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“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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Quote for the day – November 13

13 Friday Nov 2015

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Silvia Federici

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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

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Quote for the day – October 23

23 Friday Oct 2015

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Val Plumwood

 

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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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Quote for the day – July 21

21 Tuesday Jul 2015

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Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, Val Plumwood

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“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

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Quote for the day – July 17

17 Friday Jul 2015

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Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature

 

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“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

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