Search Results for machinic relationships

...Susan Ballard Abstract At the turn of the previous century Henri Bergson suggested that sympathy offered a way to understand interspecies relationships. Samuel Butler took Bergson’s ideas to an absurd extent by mixing them with readings of Charles Darwin and claiming a vital impulse for machines...

... available. Few scholars have analyzed this relationship between technology, media, and the perception of landscape as convincingly as Wolfgang Schivelbusch, who famously argued that the landscape perceived by travelers was filtered through the machine ensemble of the railroad system. This article brings...

... of Nature, you must practice more humanity,” 28 and so he plants a chestnut grove to feed his children. However, instead of cultivating the secrets of nature and practicing more humanity, future Hoel generations extend their machinal relationship with the land to their father’s chestnut tree. John Hoel...

... so as an invader and as a threat to the safety, efficiency, and hygiene of the farm operation. A widely cited historical account of the broiler chicken industry, for instance, details the industry’s efforts to turn the chicken into a “highly efficient machine” for converting grain into protein while...

...: “What is sin?” “What is God? What is love?” 32 The Complex acts as a colonization device, making humans operational by depriving them of relationships and empathy. The capitalist-colonialist machine produces a lack of affectivity and relation that often resembles childish innocence or narcissism...

... conception of wildness. In the face of work regimes and technologies of control—such as the chicken harvesting machine—chickens, although domesticated, remain in this context wild. They “press against, disrupt, and leak value from even the most apparently complete and relentless models of authoritarian...

... interventions adding to and altering the meaning of the term can better account for the multiple historical processes that created ecological crises (e.g., Capitalocene) and the many relationships across humans and other species affected by these exploits (e.g., Chthulucene). 8 Overall, scholars invest...

.... This was not a simple chemical effect of the water altering the chemical composition of the cells; this was something above the physiochemical: a psychological effect. Backster had used the polygraph machine to simultaneously reveal that the plant had a mind and to read the plant’s mind. This remarkable turn...

... renders killing an intervention into the metabolic relationships that tie together numerous species of microbes living within wine. In acting on wine as a whole it kills rather indiscriminately, simultaneously terminating multiple lives that relate to humans in different ways. Pasteurisation therefore...

... . Ivakhiv Adrian J. “ The Anthrobiogeomorphic Machine: Stalking the Zone of Cinema .” Film-Philosophy 15 ( 2011 ): 118 – 39 . Ivakhiv Adrian J. Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, Nature . Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press , 2013 . Kimmerer Robin...

... numerical controlled (CNC) machining and additive manufacturing, popularly known as 3D printing. These technological developments have been heralded by futurologists as fundamentally transformative of capitalism. Jeremy Rifkin sees the information age as ushering in the “third industrial revolution.” 1...

... repositioned as avatars of the climate crisis. These objects include, for example, the Boulton and Watt rotative beam engine built in 1786 to pump water and later to grind barley for the Barclay & Perkins Brewery in Southwark, London, 2 and J. Edward Earnshaw and Co.’s Trestle steam machine (1862...

... and efforts to “own the weather.” 8 Focusing on The Weather Project , the second part of the essay charts a series of connections between Eliasson’s human-made weather, London’s own history of fog, pollution, and yellowed skies, and military interest in fog dispersal and seeding. The relationship between...

..., “If Lions Could Speak: Investigating the Animal-Human Relationship and the Perspectives of Nonhuman Others,” The Sociological Quarterly 34, no. 3 August (1993), 377-390; David Goode, Playing With My Dog Katie: An Ethnomethodological Study of Dog-Human Interaction (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press...

... modern global City, and its possible futures.” 93 The environmental composition Within Our Reach: A Symphony of the Port River Soundscapes amply demonstrates the role that public space can play in shaping human-musical relationships with natural and built environments. Chester Schultz brought...

... horizons chronologically but to experiment with the ways time underpins forms of relationship across people, materials, and environments. 5 In this provocation I take this critique of sustaining times further and suggest that far from orienting us toward a solution, the logics of popular temporal...

..., and affective relationships that constitute their mutual conditioning and make this multispecies collaboration possible. I trace the infrastructures, economies, and encounters that allow dogs and humans to become sensory professionals and collaborators in the risky business of demining, foregrounding the mutual...

... people were speaking for nature. Departing from a failed attempt to speak for another species (the fringe-toed foam frog), this paper considers how diverging values and obligations shape relationships in multi-species worlds. As spokespersons articulated competing visions of nature on the borderlands...

... learn to intervene with the soil profile more sensitively. This article focuses on the concept of soil integrity and its significance for farmers’ ethical relationship to soils in everyday practice, using the case study of pasture cropping, an Australian form of agriculture that extends no-till methods...

... Clynes and Kline, “Cyborgs and Space.” See also Gray, Cyborg Handbook . 42. For more, see Keller, “Organisms, Machines, and Thunderstorms.” 43. Indeed, as David Mindell points out, astronauts ultimately did very little “flying” in the piloting sense, generally only manning the vehicle...