The Dirty/Earthy Mother

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-41
Author(s):  
Jane Caputi
Keyword(s):  
Human Beings ◽  
Connection To Nature ◽  
Mother Nature ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
White Earth

This chapter explores the ways that undoing the Anthropocene means rejecting misogynist and biophobic meanings of Mother Nature-Earth and reclaiming much of what has been made obscene and “dirty.” This includes reclaiming the word cunt and cultivating a “dirty mind,” able to see through oppressive hierarchical dualisms. The Anthropocene manifests Man’s attempted mutilation and rape-murder of Earth. It relies on a fusion of sex and violence as well as an invidious dualism that falsely opposes nature and culture, soil and spirit, dirty and clean, black and white, earth and sky, female and male. Refusing this artificial opposition, Nature-Earth appears as the active and autonomous “Mutha’,” one who thinks, who decides, who gives, who takes, who comes, and who also can go. Human beings have long invoked Nature-Earth as “Mother,” not only to recognize our dependence on and connection to Nature-Earth, but also, perhaps, to remind Nature-Earth of their relationship to us.

scholarly journals Educational Content of Today The Understanding of Architecture as a Collective Art

2019 ◽  
pp. 100-103
Author(s):  
Gro Lauvland
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Educational Content ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
The World ◽  
The Given ◽  
As If ◽  
At Home

Our understanding of the world is manifested in what we make and produce. Through the last 250 years there has been a change in the understanding of man´s place in the world. Our way of building is characterized by market economy and controlled production processes — as if we can control everything through our consciousness. Both the given nature and what is transferred to us through history, are regarded as resources made for us. Today our understanding of the world makes the cities more and more similar. This understanding of nature and culture challenges our human conditions. As human beings, we are embedded in the place, according to both Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. In line with their understanding the Norwegian architect and theorist Christian Norberg-Schulz argued, for instance in Stedskunst (1995), that it is the qualities of the place we identify with, and which makes it possible for us to feel at home.

Frankenstein, Gender, and Mother Nature

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne K. Mellor
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Mary Shelley ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Natural Order ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Mother Nature ◽  
Sexual Division ◽  
Sexual Division Of Labor

Why did Mary Shelley create THE myth of modern science on June 16, 1816? This essay explores the autobiographical and scientific origins of Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, focusing on the ways in which the sexual division of labor in 19th Century Britain shaped the novel. Victor Frankenstein’s project – to have a baby without a woman (and thus eliminate the biological necessity for females) – points to the myriad ways in which the women in the novel, from Elizabeth Lavenza, Caroline Beaufort, and Justine Moritz to the female creature, are de-valued or destroyed. But in Mary’s feminist novel, Mother Nature fights back, killing Victor and transforming his creature into a monster. Shelley’s novel implicitly argues that human beings must co-operate with rather than dominate the natural order of reproduction.

Chemical Foreplay among Black and White Students

1982 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip A. Belcastro ◽  
Thomas Nicholson
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Black Students ◽  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
White Students ◽  
Behavior Patterns ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Behavior Profile ◽  
Behavior Profiles

Throughout the ages, human beings Have consumed a wide variety of drugs to increase sexual desires, performance and pleasure. However in terms of alcohol and marijuana use in conjunction with sexual behavior patterns, little research has been reported. The purpose of this study was to determine whether individuals who use alcohol and/or marijuana prior to coitus have sexual behavior profiles significantly different than those individuals who do not use alcohol and/or marijuana prior to coitus. A sample of convenience which comprised 1,090 students and 5 per cent of the student population was drawn. The Belcastro Sexual Behavior Inventory was utilized to collect the data. The analysis indicated that for this population experimentation with alcohol and marijuana prior to coitus is not atypical among college students. The pattern of sexual behaviors for black students was not all that dissimilar between those who did and did not use alcohol and marijuana prior to coitus. This was not true for white students. White females who used alcohol and marijuana prior to coitus had a sexual behavior profile which was in sharp contrast to those females who did not use these drugs prior to coitus. It was suggested that the use of these drugs may be a form of “chemical foreplay” where they are used to enhance and culminate the coital episode. If this premise is supported by future empirical research it would seem that education which segregates the area of drugs from the area of sexuality is inadequate.

scholarly journals A strawberry, an animal cry and a human subject: Where existential semiotics, biosemiotics and relational metaphysics seem to meet one another

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (3/4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Machtyl
Keyword(s):  
Human Subject ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Common Space ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
The Common

The article discus ses some semiotic approaches to the relation between nature and culture. Starting with outlining the structuralistic approach to this issue, especially the ideas of Juri Lotman and Algirdas Julien Greimas, the author finds parallels between different views on the relation between the natural world and human beings. First, the juxtaposition of Eero Tarasti’s existential semiotics with selected concepts of biosemiotics is discussed. The following part of the paper is dedicated to Bruno Latour’s ideas on nature–culture relation, hybrids and mediations. Then the author refers to Lotman’s notion of the semiosphere as the common space for all living and inanimate elements. Closing the paper with a return to biosemiotics, the author comes back to Tarasti’s ideas and compares these with some ideas in biosemiotics, paying special attention to the concepts of unpredictability, choice and dynamics. The comparison shows that some intuitions, assumptions and theses of these different scholars turn out to be surprisingly convergent. The author believes that the outlined parallels between Tarasti’s view, Latour’s and Lotman’s concepts, and biosemiotics may be promising for further research, inviting detailed study.

scholarly journals HUMAN: BEING BETWEEN NATURE AND CULTURE

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-13
Author(s):  
Alexey Volkov
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Cultural Origins

The article investigates some issues connected with comprehending the specific features of human existence. The author uses genetic and cross-cultural studies to show that human development is affected by both genetic and sociocultural factors. The author believes that the conception of human existence that takes into account mutual influence and complementarity of genetic and cultural origins in human beings is justified not only in theory, but also in practice, since it responds to the need for harmonization of relations between people and their environment.

scholarly journals ARSITEKTUR, MATERIAL BANGUNAN DAN KEHARMONISAN KEHIDUPAN

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-15
Author(s):  
Andi Prasetiyo
Keyword(s):  
Building Materials ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Local Cultures

Architecture is not only focused on the physical stucture, but it contains many things that can be synergized, including nature and culture. That synergies were expected to create a work of architecture that is familiar and acceptable. From this premise, the term of eco-architecture known, that will help us create environmentally architectural masterpiece. There were Romo Mangun and Eko Prawoto that give us an understanding on how the architect and their work can be closer to nature and local cultures that exist in the location where the architect is putting their work. This works maybe not using building materials that are super luxurious and high tech. However, from the simplicity born an architectural works that have a 'soul'. Similarly as we as human beings, adapting the architecture to the environment will make the architecture may survive. Harmony of life will be created when the environment and architecture walk in harmony, coexistence and also mutual respect to each other. Architecture is not only focused on the physical stucture, but it contains many things that can be synergized, including nature and culture. That synergies were expected to create a work of architecture that is familiar and acceptable. From this premise, the term of eco-architecture known, that will help us create environmentally architectural masterpiece. There were Romo Mangun and Eko Prawoto that give us an understanding on how the architect and their work can be closer to nature and local cultures that exist in the location where the architect is putting their work. This works maybe not using building materials that are super luxurious and high tech. However, from the simplicity born an architectural works that have a 'soul'. Similarly as we as human beings, adapting the architecture to the environment will make the architecture may survive. Harmony of life will be created when the environment and architecture walk in harmony, coexistence and also mutual respect to each other.

scholarly journals Cognitive Semiotics: An emerging field for the transdisciplinary study of meaning

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Zlatev
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Comparative Psychology ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Ontological Pluralism ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Methodological Triangulation ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Synthetic Approaches

The article provides an overview of ongoing research and key characteristics of Cognitive Semiotics, an emerging field dedicated to the “transdiciplinary study of meaning”, involving above all researchers from semiotics, linguistics, developmental and comparative psychology and philosophy. The combination of the following features distinguish it from other synthetic approaches: (a) integration of theoretical and empirical research; (b) ontological pluralism and methodological triangulation; (c) influence of phenomenology; (d) focus on dynamism and (e) the ambition of true transdisciplinarity. Its ultimate goal is to provide new insights into the nature and culture of human beings, as well as other meaning-making creatures.

On the animal and the human. Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida and the question of zoology

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris Därmann
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Nature And Culture

"Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida and the question of zoology« This paper deals with the frontier between nature and culture, whose clearest form is seen is the designation of the border between animals and human beings. It has the character of a not yet established divide which can, as in Heidegger, be broken down to a hermeneutic abyss or, as in Derrida, be pluralised in asymmetrical standpoints and chiastic convolutions."

»A Line Made by Walking«

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Moser
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Alternative Form ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Straight Line ◽  
The One ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Point Of Departure

Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit kulturanthropologischen und literarischen Reflexionen auf den Bewegungsmodus des Gehens. Er diskutiert die Frage, inwieweit das Gehen in diesen Diskursen als Linienpraxis aufgefasst wird. Ausgangspunkt ist die Beobachtung, dass die Kulturanthropologie, die dem aufrechten Gang eine Schlüsselfunktion für die Anthropogenese zuweist, diesen zugleich als Produkt eines ›Begradigungsprozesses‹ markiert und an die dichotomische Gegenüberstellung von Natur und Kultur koppelt. In literarischen Texten, aber auch in neueren ökoanthropologischen Ansätzen wird die Natur-Kultur-Opposition und die damit verbundene Privilegierung der geraden Linie kritisch hinterfragt. Setzt die literarische Peripatetik mithin eine alternative Form der Beziehung zwischen Mensch und Umwelt in Szene? Entwirft sie eine Ökologie des Denkens und Wahrnehmens, die sich jenseits der Natur-Kultur-Dichotomie bewegt? Diese Fragen werden an ausgewählten Fallbeispielen beleuchtet. The essay deals with the peripatetic mode of movement as reflected in cultural anthropology and literature. It asks to what extent these discourses view walking as a practice of line-making. The point of departure is the observation that cultural anthropology ascribes a key role to the upright gait within anthropogenesis while associating it with a process of rectilinearization on the one hand and a sharp dichotomy between nature and culture on the other hand. Certain literary texts and recent approaches in ecologically oriented anthropology have, however, challenged the validity of this dichotomy and the concomitant privilege of the straight line. Does literary peripatetics thus propose an alternative way to grasp the relationship between human beings and the environment? Does it outline a new ecology of the mind that supersedes the binary relation between nature and culture? These questions are discussed with reference to selected case studies.

What Does the Concept of Ambidexterity Mean in the Current Military Planning Process and Organization Construction?

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-21
Author(s):  
Aki-Mauri Huhtinen
Keyword(s):  
Cyber Security ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Organizational Adaptation ◽  
Individual Risk ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Military Organizations ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Organization Construction

How do organizations survive in the face of change? This is a key question for Western military organizations after the Iraq War and its consequences. All human crises are manmade because of we are human beings. The spreading of individual risk also increases systemic risk. The root cause of the problem is what has been termed “rational irrationality” – behavior that, on the individual level, is perfectly reasonable but that, when aggregated in a complex system, produces calamity (Alpaslan & Mitroff, 2010, xvii). From the perspective of organizational adaptation and learning, March (1991) argues that a significant number of competencies needs to be learnt and unlearnt during each and every process of change. According to Birkinshaw and Gibson (2011, 2004), in many sports, ambidexterity is a competitive advantage. Footballers are encouraged to use both left and right foot; left-handed batsmen have a slight advantage against right handed bowlers; the southpaw boxer presents a rarely encountered challenge to a boxer with an orthodox stance; some ambidextrous tennis players even use both hands, separately, to play strokes during a rally. And while some individuals are naturally two-handed or two-footed, many work hard to gain an advantage by practising until they master ambidexterity. The challenge for public security and safety organizations is that with terrorism and changes brought on by cyber-security they are faced with their greatest challenge since the end of World War Two. Not only are the structures and operating procedures undergoing change but also attitudes and values are pressed on by a changing society. Rational black and white thinking no longer functions when immigrants, various ethnic backgrounds, social media and the operating mechanisms and values of market economy force their way into the training grounds of military bases and battlefields. This article examines the usefulness of the concept of ambidexterity as part of the Comprehensive Approach planning and decision-making process adopted by Western military organizations.

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