Mastodawn

starcide Aug 8, 2022

The Netflix Woodstock 99 documentary feels very prescient in relation to the political situation currently in the UK.... what happens when terrible management and unrestrained capitalism meet....

starcide Aug 3, 2022

On Being None With Nature: Nagarjuna and the Ecology of Emptiness By John Clark

http://tibetanbuddhistencyclopedia.com/en/index.php?title=On_Being_None_With_Nature:_Nagarjuna_and_the_1_Ecology_of_Emptiness

A really great essay!

Some further discussion here:
https://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2009/11/14/nagarjuna-ecophilosophy-the-practice-of-liberation/

On Being None With Nature: Nagarjuna and the 1 Ecology of Emptiness - Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia

On Being None With Nature: Nagarjuna and the Ecology of Emptiness

starcide Jul 28, 2022

Odo Tournesol Jul 28, 2022

When you realize there is no self or selves compassion becomes easier.

Suffering of others is your suffering

The dying forest is you dying

Nourishing the world is nourishing yourself

starcide Jul 25, 2022

Radical alterity is just another way of saying “reality” A reply to Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.14318/hau5.2.003

This is so wide ranging, relevant to the Ontological Turn in Anthropology, Malagasy epistemology, politics, life in general. Really well written. Graeber really gets to the heart of the matter on some things about the ontological turn and perspectivism that have been tickling the back of my brain, despite thinking it was(still is) great food for thought.

Radical alterity is just another way of saying “reality” : A reply to Eduardo Viveiros de Castro | HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory: Vol 5, No 2

As a response to Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s critique of my essay “Fetishes are gods in the process of construction,” this paper enters into critical engagement with anthropological proponents of what has been called the “ontological turn.” Among other engagements, I note that my own reflections on Malagasy fanafody, or medicine, are informed by just the sort of self-conscious reflections my informants make on epistemology, something that anthropologists typically ignore. After making note of the arguments of Roy Bhaskar that most post-Cartesian philosophy rests on an “epistemic fallacy,” I further argue that a realist ontology, combined with broad theoretical relativism, is a more compelling political position than the “ontological anarchy” and theoretical intolerance of ontological turn exponents.

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

starcide Jul 23, 2022

So I'm reading Staying with the Trouble, a book I was very keen to read. She has some good points, 'Staying with the Trouble' is a good metaphor. But Haraway is just a speciesist, no way around it, farmers and nonhumans do not 'work together' (to use just one example from the book). Not a single mention of consent in this book related to nonhumans and these relations. The book 'The Feminist Care Tradition In Animal Ethics' is infinitely better IMHO.

starcide Jul 17, 2022

Good stuff:
Acid Horizon - From Capitalist Realism to Acid Communism: A Brief History of Mark Fisher's Concepts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtlFTO7D4LY

From Capitalist Realism to Acid Communism: A Brief History of Mark Fisher's Concepts

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starcide Jul 16, 2022

Anarchism as a Spiritual Practice - quite a good little read, these kinds of thoughts need more traction on the left
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anna-ronan-anarchism-as-a-spiritual-practice

Anarchism as a Spiritual Practice

Anna Ronan Anarchism as a Spiritual Practice May 23, 2019 This text was written as part of the LSC Pamphlet Program. The post reflects only the opinions of...

The Anarchist Library

starcide Jul 6, 2022

Swapped the house and the car for a houseboat for the week on the Norfolk Broads, love the boatlife, could live this, love the pace here, waved at so many Gammons I don't quite believe it (I look like a 40 year old crusty).

starcide Jul 2, 2022

What a beautiful looking book. The scholarship was top notch too, highly recommended if you want to go in depth on Tibetan visionary practices, really detailed. Both some very insightful academic digest of the material (150 pages) and 3 translations of key texts(another 150 pages), Commentary on the Intended Meaning of the Six Lamps by Drugom Gyalwa Yungdrung was particularly great.

starcide Jul 2, 2022

So our broad beans succumbed to black bean aphid but we just got our first harvest of purple sprouting and cabbage which were both great!