cailloux n°34

nature, nurture

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2 min ⋅ 14/04/2019

David Hockney. The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 - 5 May. iPad drawing printed on paper © David Hockney / Richard Schmidt.David Hockney. The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 - 5 May. iPad drawing printed on paper © David Hockney / Richard Schmidt.

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Un site dont le serveur est maintenu par une batterie solaire, dont on peut connaître le pourcentage de charge à tout moment.

On peut notamment y lire un article sur l'utilisation des excréments humains pour produire de l'engrais – au lieu de les évacuer dans l'eau qui doit alors ensuite être traitée.

"The Chinese were as numerous as the Americans and Europeans at the time, and they had large, densely populated cities, too. The difference was that they maintained an agricultural system that was based on human “waste” as a fertilizer. Stools and urine were collected with care and discipline, and transported over sometimes considerable distances. They were mixed with other organic waste, composted and then spread across the fields."


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Ce magnifique article sur la façon dont les parents Inuit éduquent leurs enfants, c'est-à-dire sans jamais crier. Au lieu de ça, ils privilégient un échange émotionnel autour du récit et du jeu.

"When a child in the camp acted in anger — hit someone or had a tantrum — there was no punishment. Instead, the parents waited for the child to calm down and then, in a peaceful moment, did something that Shakespeare would understand all too well: They put on a drama."


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Sur les mauvaises herbes.

"I started paying more close attention to my own little community of weeds. And I started regretting branding them as such. Not for ethical reasons, but for typological ones. A weed is such a non-specific term. So homogenising and unsophisticated. So structuralist. Each so-called weed, after all, has a remarkable story to tell."


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Et sur le concept de nature.

"This proto-democratic politics of nature also naturalized a set of exclusions. Native Americans were styled the most natural of peoples—except when their alleged failure to settle and develop the land justified their expropriation and expulsion."


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Cette semaine, j'ai écris deux articles, plus personnels peut-être. Le premier, sur le concept d'anxiété écologique, le second sur les choix que l'on fait d'ajouter au bruit du monde.

J'aimerais encore parler contrôle des naissances, techno-salvation, végétarisme et pailles en plastique, tant de choses en fait. Dès que j'ai un peu de temps j'écris, sans vraiment me relire. J'espère pouvoir retravailler plus tard cette matière trop brute. En attendant, je suis disponible et ouverte aux retours et discussions.

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