Oh. I had no idea what this story was about. Thanks for shedding some light on that.
On Friday, 11 September 2020 at 05:17:09 UTC+3 daniel.s...@gmail.com wrote: > *Leiningen versus the Ants* tells the story of a settler determined to > fight an oncoming invasion of soldier ants when all the odds are stacked > against him. The short story regularly features in anthologies alongside > Jack London's survival stories. It conveys the notion that nothing can stop > a colonial master if he is of strong enough character, not even the > calamities of nature. In the classroom, the reading assignment often serves > as preamble to discuss man versus nature, narrative structure and > characterization. The colonial ideology that underpins it? Not so much. > > It is not easy for the average person to imagine that an animal, not to >> mention an insect, can think. But now both the European brain of Leiningen >> and the primitive brains of the Indians began to stir with the unpleasant >> foreboding that inside every single one of that deluge of insects dwelt a >> thought. And that thought was: Ditch or no ditch, we'll get to your flesh! > > > Critical situations first become crises, he explained to his men, when >> oxen or women get excited. > > > Apologists will demand examination of the text in the context of its time, > its society. Undoubtedly, those were times of euro-centrism, misogyny and > self-professed superiority. But those were also times of dissenting, > progressive voices demanding change, equality, a better world. Those voices > need to be anthologized and discussed in the classroom, too. The empires > may have been undone, but their ideology lingers on, oftentimes implicit > and rampant. > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 12:48 AM movie gique <dsblak...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I came across "Leiningen vs. the Ants" in a collection of short stories I >> have. Highly recommended! >> >> On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 6:44 AM Daniel Szmulewicz <daniel.s...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I hope you'll enjoy reading my latest blog post on Meyvn, if only for >>> the historical tidbits around Clojure tooling. >>> >>> "When we we say that Clojure is hosted on the JVM, we often forget the >>> corollary, that Clojure tooling is built on Maven. We'd be forgiven for the >>> oversight: the tooling is good at keeping Maven out of sight. But Maven is >>> everywhere: in Clojars as the repository format, in Boot where Pomegranate >>> is used as the interface for the Maven resolver, in tools.deps which >>> harnesses the Maven resolver directly... Meyvn takes the ubiquity of Maven >>> to its logical conclusion, delegating all tasks to Maven's execution >>> engine." >>> >>> Oh, and did you ever wonder where Leiningen gets its name from? 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