[FRIAM] Natures_Queer_Performativity_the_authori.pdf

[Marcus Daniels]

Sheesh, Reed, Evergreen.  It's like freaking Ice-9.  :-) 

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Living near Evergreen has helped me come to a similar conclusion, that I might learn quite a bit from the rationalist bogeys "postmodern", "gender studies", etc. I regularly meet graduates from Evergreen in arguments with libertarians and right wingers in the pubs. I haven't met too many rationalists in the pubs, perhaps because they're too hell-bent on myopic optimization to kill a few brain cells with alcohol. But in these arguments, the agility of the Evergreen alum is flat-out amazing. It's quite similar to Oregon. We lived in spitting distance to Reed. But we were in Clackastan county, which has fewer righties than here in Olympia, but still way more than Portland, proper. So, we'd see a nice gradient of rhetorical agility flowing downhill from Reed.

I used to hold it as a priority to live in "university towns". But now I think I'm prejudiced to living near liberal arts universities. A tech-heavy, rationalist-heavy place no longer looks so appealing.

On 4/29/21 11:08 AM, jon zingale wrote:
> This article makes me think that I would enjoy a course in queer studies.
> I am interested to see how tools developed there are utilized and how 
> such analyses can provide insight into questions of boundary, object, 
> and identity. I am not sure of many other fields of study where there 
> is such an explicit emphasis on developing a rich theory of mereology, 
> and it does not take too much imagination to see that creating such 
> generalized tools and techniques can be of value to complexity science.
> Glen's Wikipedia reference to Barad's agential realism summarizes some 
> of what I am finding interesting and applicable to the philosophy of 
> science. There is a distinct deconstructional component to the writing.
> I appreciate that the author's approach is not purely deconstruction 
> for its own sake, but part of a larger project of reconstruction. 
> Discovery versus construction appears, to me, a difference between 
> science and engineering. The article appears to offer more to the 
> former. Maybe amoeba's are altruists.


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