Problems of Spatial and Temporal Scale http://www.alansondheim.org/scrape.jpg https://youtu.be/9Eku3V-yqwM VIDEO The movement of the thread-wasted wasp in relation to human demolition of a concrete structure. The time is as follows: demolition at 6 times normal; wasp at normal; wasp at 1/6 normal; demolition at normal. 6, 1, 1/6 1. Locating tool use, appearance of conscious and deliberate action, the physicality of the world at scale, the obdurate nature of the physical environment, the attribution of consciousness, the problematization of both temporal and spatial scale - and then the position of the viewer - identification? , boredom? , fascination? , recognition that the very scale of life both spatially and temporally problematizes attributions of culture, tool-use, consciousness, planning, decision-making, instinct, and so forth. It's far too easy to categorize the 'other' at any scale, to assume the uniqueness of human behaviors and constructions, to ignore what may well be barely visible. But there is culture wherever and whenever there are decisions being made, when negation and memory enter the picture (Heinz von Foerster), when ... so many things, so many definitions of life, of the living, of consciousness, of being. I assume live and thought, consciousness and history, everywhere; I assume, not the struggle for survival, but the recognition of cessation among almost all beings. And the idea that other species may feel no pain, may have no consciousness at all, surely is a form of undeserved imperialism on our part. Perhaps we are the only creatures on the planet who do not know how to read... _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
