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I wonder what Gary Warner, one of our earlier guests this month, might have to
say about rewilding?
best
Simon
On 26 Jul 2013, at 22:48, simon <s...@clear.net.nz> wrote:
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> two brief notes elicited by Johannes's avowal of "control society" hypocrisy
> and entanglement and his disavowal of 'interactivity' for resulting in only
> the recognisable, while the performance is elsewhere - as it was Grotowski, I
> think, who gave as his reason for ceasing to direct theatre any more the fact
> that everybody has got so good at acting in their everyday lives there is no
> use for theatre, so theatre and performance lose their supplement of
> unpredictability becoming all too recognisably theatrical and performative -
> and boring - while for the spectacle of technoculture, likewise?
>
> 1) Paul Goodman's epigraph to Neil Postman's Technopoly: The Surrender of
> Culture to Technology reads: "Whether or not it draws on new scientific
> research, technology is a branch of moral philosophy, not of science."
>
> 2) George Monbiot's Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of
> Rewilding uses the verb "to rewild" - not to evoke a vision of hoards of
> occupiers reappropriating "wilding" as a tactic in Central Park or anywhere
> at all - but to indicate another kind of activity, engagement or activism:
> restoring the wilderness to wildness. I think he does mean to advocate for a
> reciprocal becoming - I rewild - the romanticism notwithstanding. ... The
> significance of the term it seems to me is to break with both "wired"-ness
> and "ecology" - the latter itself arising from a mechanistic appropriation
> (and determination) of natural processes that gives us without too great a
> metaphorical leap social and cultural, economic and technological ecologies
> (engaging a thoroughgoing and thoroughly entangling ecological determinism).
>
> Best,
> Simon Taylor
>
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