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Cultual relativism and table manners
When our family sits down to eat, we define the meal in front of us in any number of ways. Sometimes we eat food which is constantly being prepared by...
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Abrasion
Every time I try to use Siri I hope it will be liberating and it fails. Siri works on the assumption that we all use a statistically predictable vocabulary. Orwell...
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Saltless days
A very strange side effect of not eating salt for a few days is that when I did, finally, eat salt again — or perhaps it was when my body...
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interspecies play as the antidote
That recent post, ‘The Myth of Sustainability‘, is a short realist critique of sustainability. Here I want to dig under the realism and pull out the more profound challenges. Then...
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The myth of sustainability
In recent conversations I have heard the word ‘sustainable’ used as an unthinking excuse, an adequate gesture of compensation for violent and massive environmental destruction, one too many times. Most...