It is true; the butterflies' travel seems free and
unfettered, yet nothing in nature is free when seen
and treated as standing reserve for humankind - even
as such, the logic of preservation is not there. And
this is so in social and human terms as well.
marie
--- Mary Bryson <mary.bryson@ubc.ca> 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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Marie Judson
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Communication
UCSD, Mailcode 0503
858.643.9090
mjudson@ucsd.edu
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