“He
served up our great military a huge bowl of chicken feces, and ever
since then, our military and our country have been trying to turn
this bowl into chicken salad.” Retired General John Batiste,
former commander of the First Infantry division in Iraq, on Secretary
of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 2006
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Tools for thinking are then the ones
that address and actualize this power of the situation, that make it
a matter of concern, in other words, make us think and not recognize.
When we deal with practices, recognition would lead to the question
— why should we take practices seriously as we know very well that
they are in the process of being destroyed by Capitalism? This is
their ‘sameness’, indeed, the only difference being between the
already destroyed one and the still-surviving ones. The ecology of
practices is a non-neutral tool as it entails the decisions never to
accept Capitalist destruction as freeing the ground for anything but
Capitalism itself. -- Isabelle Stengers
Raymond
Williams, The
Guardian (11
October 1984): “from the experience of real communities, and now
also from ecology [that] we can learn to see living systems and
relationships as primary. They begin before and not after
'individuals'. Thus 'individual freedoms' are not primarily to be
justified by proprietorial assertions of 'rights', but from the
absolute need of all living systems and relationships to communicate
as well and freely as they can.”
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