I wonder if people think that Richard Rodriguez' autobiography, Hunger of
Memory, provides some insights into losses associated with development?
Dorie
At 01:28 PM 4/4/2005, you wrote:
>Well, those butterflies and some notion of an elsewhere or other that is
>unfettered... Would that it were so. I am especially fond of the Monarchs --
>an endangered species precisely as they travel across space. Actually, the
>butterflies - we could think of them as actants in some species of ANT -
>part of the system and with no autonomous agency -- feed along the way on
>milkweed, treated with pesticides as a "noxious weed", as well as
>genetically-modified corn that produces a protein toxic to the larvae of
>monarchs, and their habitat in their wintering grounds in Mexico is being
>lost to devastating logging, resulting in a huge drop in the population of
>Monarchs.
>
>And so here we have a kind of cautionary tale about the impacts of
>"development" <science, construction, the economy> on forms of life and
>living. The kinds of loss produced by "development" produces an interesting
>line of inquiry.
>
>Mary
>
>On 4/3/05 7:48 PM, "Marie Judson" <mjudson@ucsd.edu> wrote:
>
> > It does relate to the topic, Kris, in the sense that
> > the butterflies come across the border freely, unlike
> > the humans.
> >
> > Marie
> >
> > --- Kris Gutierrez <gutierrez@gseis.ucla.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> THIS IS OFF TOPIC BUT IT CAN'T GO
> >> UNNOTICED--SOMETHING CLOSE TO HOME
> >> FOR THOSE OF US IN THE SOUTHWEST and hopefully
> >> something else to
> >> ponder: KRIS
> >>
> >> Soldados Mexicanos Muertos en Irak" (Xenophobes of
> >> the Minutemen
> >> Project want to play soldiers on the
> >> Arizona-Mexico border, hunting
> >> down "illegal aliens." Meanwhile, Mexicans are
> >> dying in Iraq for the
> >> US government) -- FULL TEXT:
> >>
> > <http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/04/soldados-mexicanos-muertos-en->>
> >> irak.html>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Kris D. Gutierrez
> >> Professor
> >> GSE&IS
> >> Moore Hall 1026
> >> UCLA
> >> Los Angeles, CA 9009501521
> >> 310-825-7467
> >
> >
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Marie Judson
> > Ph.D. Candidate
> > Department of Communication
> > UCSD, Mailcode 0503
> > 858.643.9090
> > mjudson@ucsd.edu
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
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