“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Monday, November 12, 2012

Distributed Mind

Fantastic. I've just written my talk for the American Anthropological Association this Friday in San Francisco. And extra-fantastically, it's only taken an hour. It's called “Distributed Mind” and it's for this panel called “Ecological Mind” run by Elizabeth Sikes.

The paper is trying to find something like the pre-agricultural view of reality as Trickster within white Western philosophy.

This will be my first time at the AAA and I'm going to make the most of it. There are several panels on agriculture and foraging and I'm going to make a bee line for them.

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