Practice, Praxis, & Genealogies among Worldings: embedded in systems: how to share ....

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Fruit Loops Landscape from the series Processed Views

http://www.ciurejlochmanphoto.com/index.html

"Processed Views interprets the frontier of industrial food production: the seductive and alarming intersection of nature and technology. As we move further away from the natural sources of our food, we head into uncharted territory replete with unintended consequences for the environment and for our health.

"In this study of the landscape of processed foods, we reference the work of photographer, Carleton Watkins (1829-1916). His sublime views framed the American West as a land of endless possibilities, and significantly influenced the creation of the first national parks. However, many of Watkins' photographs were commissioned by the corporate interests of the day; the Central Pacific Railroad, the lumber, milling and mining industries. Watkins embodied the commonly held 19th century view of Manifest Destiny – the inevitability of America's bountiful land, justifiably utilized and consumed by it's citizens.

"We built these views to examine consumption, progress and the changing landscape."

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"In 1905, the Russian biologist Konstantin Mereschkowski first suggested that some parts of eukaryotic cells were once endosymbionts—free-living microbes that took up permanent residence within other cells. He thought the nucleus originated in this way, as did the chloroplasts that allow plant cells to harness sunlight. He missed the mitochondria, but the American anatomist Ivan Wallin pegged them for endosymbionts in 1923.

"These ideas were ignored for decades until an American biologist—the late Lynn Margulis—revived them in 1967. In a radical paper, she made the case that mitochondria and chloroplasts were once free-living bacteria that had been sequentially ingested by another ancient microbe. That is why they still have their own tiny genomes and why they still superficially look like bacteria. Margulis argued that endosymbiosis was not a crazy, oddball concept—it was one of the most important leitmotivs in the eukaryotic opera.

"The paper was a tour de force of cell biology, biochemistry, geology, genetics, and paleontology. Its conclusion was also grossly unorthodox. At the time, most people believed that mitochondria had simply come from other parts of the cell. “[Endosymbiosis] was taboo,” says Bill Martin from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, in Germany. “You had to sneak into a closet to whisper to yourself about it before coming out again.”

"Margulis’ views drew fierce criticism, but she defended with equal vigor. Soon she had the weight of evidence behind her. Genetic studies, for example, showed that mitochondrial DNA is similar to that of free-living bacteria. Now, very few scientists doubt that ancient mergers infused the cells of every animal and plant with the descendants of modern bacteria."

http://nautil.us/issue/10/mergers--acquisitions/the-unique-merger-that-made-you-and-ewe-and-yew

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What might these have to do with Reed & Flanagan? and with what is still to come? :) Did you get my email about presentations, handouts and standards?

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Where are they and what are they doing in 2014?

>Bernice Johnson Reagon "Coalition Politics" 1983
>Noël Sturgeon "Direct Theory" 1995
>Nancy Whittier "Feminist Generations" 1995
>Chela Sandoval "Methodology of the Oppressed" & "AfterBridge" 2000 & 2002
>TV Reed "Art of Protest" 2005
>Mary Flanagan "Critical Play" 2009
>Donna Haraway "Pilgrim Award Acceptance" 2011
>AnaLouise Keating "Transformation Now!" 2013

Could people be boundary objects do you suppose? Have agency as "boxes" that are easier to move around and share than the whole communities of interaction they may also be the tip of the iceberg of? Can we open up these boxes without trivializing the hard work that these folks do also?

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“The interest in “fuzziness” signaled by the Common Knowledge symposium suggests an increasing willingness to face up to and articulate the realities of non-coherence. As the will to purity loses its power, it becomes easier to talk about how to do syncretism well and then to act accordingly. Purity is not the only way we hold together normatively or politically. The puzzle is why we are so often scared of the thought of a world that is noncoherent. Why do we feel ourselves at a disadvantage when we are told that, unless we buy into general moral and political principles, we have abandoned all possibility of a moral or political position? Perhaps we are still partially beholden to the modernist redesign that leads to straight lines and curves, rather than to the jury-rigged boxes and wires, ambiguities, tensions, and messy social arrangements of impurity—beholden to the idea that the opposite of coherence is incoherence rather than noncoherence. But then again, perhaps things are changing. If we are able to talk of fuzzy logics and heterogeneities, then perhaps the will to purity is starting to lose its grip.” (Law13:191-2)

“many versions of the good”: (Law13:189-90): modes of syncretism: note how the choice of terms to encapsulate each requires one to feel them out as boundary objects and to take interest in, perhaps even pleasure in, their counter-intuitive uses here:
= denial
= domestication
= separation
= care
= conflict
= collapse

PUT THIS SIDE BY SIDE WITH Sandoval02:

Five technologies:
=reading power (radical semiotics, la facultad, ‘signifyin’
=deconstruction (coatlicue
=meta-ideologizing
=differential perception (nepantla
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=democratics, an ethical technology: mobilizes the previous four

so that agencies can "select" tactics according to political situation:
tactics such as:
=integrationism
=revolutionary action
=supremacism
=separtism
=anarchism
=political defense of the human or redefinition of the human
=or even defiance of categorizing as “human”

all this becomes
A PLACE-BASED ECOLOGICAL ACTIVISM
IDENTIFYING POLITICAL & CULTURAL PLANETARY GEOGRAPHIES

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Reed05 Ch8: Environmental Justice Ecocriticism (218-9):

>cognitive praxis: