February 16, 2011
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The history of ideas about nature can be read in terms of the social order being defended or promoted — see previous posts. This post presents a schema of Raymond Williams’s history of changing and conflicting ideas about nature and … Continue reading
November 28, 2010
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David Hounshell characterizes Akera’s book Calculating a Natural World well when he says, as quoted on the book’s cover, that it “takes many of the familiar developments in the early history of digital electronic computing and recasts them so as … Continue reading
November 3, 2010
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The following discussion illustrates how socio-environmental studies, such as the case of soil erosion from the previous post and those of political ecology more generally (Peet and Watts 1996), provide rich material for exploring the problematic boundedness of ecological complexity … Continue reading
November 1, 2010
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The history of ideas about nature can be read in terms of the social order being defended or promoted, as described well by Raymond Williams (1980) (and explored in the “trialogue” of previous posts). This schema (which evolved through my … Continue reading
October 30, 2010
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Partovo: Agreed. But you should remember that some people move into such areas when the price of real estate drops to levels they can afford. That’s the way markets work to balance supply and demand. Dare I say, it’s a … Continue reading
October 29, 2010
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Continued from previous post. Each person takes one of the three roles: Partovo (“Humans are a Part Of nature”); Separata (“Humans have become Separate from nature”); or Interpreta (“Interpret Socially views about nature and what is natural”). Begin the conversation … Continue reading
October 27, 2010
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Preamble Ideas of nature underlie a great deal of social thought and have done so through recorded history. The changing meanings of “nature” and the tensions among co-existing meanings have been analyzed brilliantly by the English cultural analyst Raymond Williams; … Continue reading