RE: Butterflies and life

From: David Preiss (davidpreiss@puc.cl)
Date: Mon Apr 04 2005 - 14:02:30 PDT


Dorie,
Sorry for not knowing the person, but could you please say more about
this book?
David

David Preiss
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dorie Evensen [mailto:dhd2@psu.edu]
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 1:38 PM
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: Re: Butterflies and life

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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