tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:45:46 +0000articlesbiosemioticspiratesmediadavid abramgrazingmythwikicyberneticssaintsdiscoursemagiccyberpunkhypertexthermeticismtechnoshamanmemeticsthe wheat industrysanctityscientific revolutionSchrödingercomplexityforestryorganic architectureparadigm shiftneo-agrariandesign and buildthermodynamicselectromagnetic fieldgreen designtranshumancemagicktemurahsod housesecological economicsupanishadsvirtualscience fictionopen accessFacebookdynamicismdandelionpost-normal sciencefarmpunkanthropologychristianityepidemiology of representationscomputationDavid Sloan Wilsonsociobiologymonoculturewild ediblesanagramscyborgsinformationsubcomandante marcoszapatistawildcraftingsmall scale grain farmingcognitive sciencecomputersgeomancyhackercultural transmissionsocialityearth sheltersecological anarchynomadismcosmographybiodiversitycivic agriculturevirtual realityvandana shivaBuckyevolutionary biologyfreedom of informationYestermorrowreligionsemioticsdesignasceticismcoffeepattern languagesocial mediahinduismforagingHomer SimpsonEmbodying synergy from: Green cultural studies. mythopoetics. social ecology. postcyberpunk literature. religious studies. queer theory...Grounded in: the boreal, the chthonic, the sylvan. Aiming for: The Sacred...http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (the faun)Blogger76125thatgreenstuffhttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-4459256190251854999Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:09:00 +00002013-04-25T18:45:46.113-04:00For many proponents of a cognitive-evolutionary explanation for religion (and also many religionists in general!), religion is defined as system involving belief in a supernatural agent or agents. Here, the concept of “belief” is central and pre-supposed, the hinge on which the definition often rests. If you have kept up with this blog for a while, it would not surprise you that something http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/vQsrDJb0leo/reviving-eliade-for-semiotics-of-sacred.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/vQsrDJb0leo" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2013/04/reviving-eliade-for-semiotics-of-sacred.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-7378304776763689744Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:30:00 +00002013-04-23T16:44:41.964-04:00My partner who is into eco-criticism was telling me all these things that I didn't know about the naturalist and explorer John Muir. He is a figurehead for wilderness conservation/preservation, co-founder of the Sierra Club, and also helped get the National Parks system started. Though he only read Emerson later in life, his work and though resonated with that brand of transcendentalism and the http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/NT3qzvo0rc4/john-muir-was-clock-punk.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/NT3qzvo0rc4" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2013/04/john-muir-was-clock-punk.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-3685683590837343521Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:28:00 +00002013-04-25T18:20:36.715-04:00semioticsmemeticsbiosemioticsevolutionary biologyanthropologycognitive scienceFor a bit of background—the blurb on the book Evolving God from Barbara J. King's website: Can scientists discover a prehistory of religion just as they have traced the evolution of technology, language, and art? What does compassion in chimpanzees, or burial patterns in our human ancestors and Neanderthals, tell us about the origins of religion? In Evolving God, named a Top Ten Religion http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/CNvscFrqSUA/relation-and-meaning-in-barbara-kings.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/CNvscFrqSUA" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2013/04/relation-and-meaning-in-barbara-kings.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-1742787839198188714Tue, 09 Apr 2013 05:59:00 +00002013-04-09T02:24:47.170-04:00“Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.” -Terence McKenna I love you man. Rest in chaos. ;) I agree with him, mainly in that I think we've lost respect for it (chaos, that is). (Sidenote: I don't always agree with demonizing http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/QICEd8sM4mA/a-tribute-to-terence.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/QICEd8sM4mA" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-tribute-to-terence.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-9095531610767737797Sat, 08 Dec 2012 07:03:00 +00002012-12-08T13:30:43.000-05:00semioticssanctitycyberpunkasceticismreligionchristianitycyborgscyberneticsscience fictionsaintsIn the first pages of his book The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism, Geoffrey G. Harpham opens with a discussion about St. Athanasius of Alexandria's Life of Antony, one of the most influential texts in Western literature and more directly formative in the genre of Late Antique hagiography (saint's lives). Seen as the hagiography par exellence, this text gave shape to the holy man ashttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/P19ESwbzx2A/the-cyborgandroid-as-ascetic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/P19ESwbzx2A" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-cyborgandroid-as-ascetic.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-8684382137595830737Fri, 30 Nov 2012 03:44:00 +00002012-12-08T13:32:22.260-05:00semioticscomputersFacebookvirtualsocial mediacomputationvirtual realitydiscoursesocialityhypertextExploring the consideration that virtuality is fundamentally social—both its greatest asset & greatest weakness Social media in its current —and defining—form is perhaps only a little over a decade old. But the core essence—which is, the function—of things like Facebook, Reddit, and Tumblr, that is, sociality (and the reification or formation of group identities), is the seed of the entire http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/tHVIr3U4Cu4/is-virtuality-inherently-social.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/tHVIr3U4Cu4" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2012/11/is-virtuality-inherently-social.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-5111840038339269022Tue, 23 Oct 2012 05:40:00 +00002012-10-23T01:42:39.543-04:00 DISCLAIMER: THE FOLLOWING ESSAY IS CREATIVE NON FICTION. THAT MEANS THAT ESPECIALLY WHEN I AM WRITING ABOUT THE VIEWS OF OTHERS, OR MY INTERPRETATION OF THEM, IT CANNOT BE TAKEN AS AN ENDORSEMENT OF THOSE VIEWS. I have a confession to make. I have a love/hate relationship with Ayn Rand. I love her for her ironically buddha-like, hedonistic, cavalier, impishly smug, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/dJAYC0ovQz4/the-making-of-american-anti-prophet-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/dJAYC0ovQz4" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-making-of-american-anti-prophet-for.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-2427845215804031853Mon, 24 Sep 2012 02:29:00 +00002012-09-24T15:12:50.328-04:00 In this post I want to explore processes of social change and shifts in notions of identity that take place during globalizations or instances of cosmopolitanism, which aren’t as new as we sometimes think they are. Christianity's origins as a sect are in the first few centuries of the Common Era, when it was one among many religious cults that worshiped a single god and were characterized by http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/1YP1yRhf2Yo/ancient-and-modern-technologies-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/1YP1yRhf2Yo" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2012/09/ancient-and-modern-technologies-of.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-6895789689519985290Sat, 01 Sep 2012 23:22:00 +00002012-09-01T19:37:08.499-04:00Green Informatics: Then, Now, and also Now A comparative exploration of some New Age/New Thought beliefs and some of their most-enchanting, and perhaps forgotten cross-cultural analogs. By now most of us have heard of the "Law of Attraction" (abbreviated LoA), a concept popularized by the New Thought movement positing that positive thoughts and intentions will bring about positive material http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/ijPiuMfZctA/the-oldest-language-on-earth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/ijPiuMfZctA" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-oldest-language-on-earth.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-6949091658095328490Thu, 17 May 2012 00:41:00 +00002012-05-16T20:41:35.056-04:00Believe it or not, I only just read "The Cyborg Manifesto" a few months ago. I was born the year it was published (1985), so my generation grew up in a post-Cyborg-Manifesto-World, and I'm realizing that many of the ideas central to this blog are spiritually descended from the kind of work Haraway was doing in that essay. It was awesome to have the opportunity to read her essay closely for my http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/ojH-ovZCCJg/will-best-allegory-for-postmodern.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/ojH-ovZCCJg" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2012/05/will-best-allegory-for-postmodern.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-686599839987616051Sun, 13 May 2012 20:31:00 +00002012-05-13T16:31:49.213-04:00The gym has always been a place of worship for me.  However, although the temple has stayed the same, the object of my devotion has not. When I first was initiated into the cult of “body building”, I was worshiping a false idol. Around the age of 15, I declared a kind of war on my body. I wouldn’t have called it that at the time, but that’s what it was. I played soccer my freshman and sophomore http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/2yJnQQC9Rtg/in-gym-mirror-darkly-queer-asceticism.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/2yJnQQC9Rtg" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2012/05/in-gym-mirror-darkly-queer-asceticism.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-2173291160837108286Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:17:00 +00002012-02-23T22:01:32.897-05:00Or: The Shifting Roles of Gender-Benders, Crossers or (insert other verbal noun here) in the Ongoing Drama of Civilization, and the phenomenological "Which-craft" of the Destabilization of Fundamental Ontological Categories That Such People Perennially (and with a multitude of variable effects) Enact Within Their Mother-Cultures…In which I discuss the strange, magical and often counter-intuitive http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/mqdfdjE6dRI/orthodoxy-of-embodiment-gender.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/mqdfdjE6dRI" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2012/02/orthodoxy-of-embodiment-gender.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-5249914402473056747Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:05:00 +00002012-02-20T14:43:02.220-05:00What follows is a hopefully minimally disjointed series of thoughts about capitalism, American society, and the irony of the (high fructose corn syrup) fruits it has yielded. Indeed, such fruits are a mixed blessings… and to what exact extent, the jury is still out… One of the most remarkable observations about post-industrial America is alluded to in the amazing essay "Capitalism and Gay http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/54aurM8xWDY/paradoxes-of-post-industrial.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/54aurM8xWDY" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2012/02/paradoxes-of-post-industrial.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-8544072247750390731Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:50:00 +00002011-11-07T18:12:34.743-05:00And now, a brief interlude from the "classical learning" and austere monasticism of the academy to meditate on its opposite: ecstasy, collectivity, and the profane fusion of fiction and reality.Often I find myself in dire need of psytrance, a favorite spiritual aid, to empty the brain of thoughts…. much needed in the business of sense-making. As many know, there is no worthwhile productivity and http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/li6CoGN6Ev0/gospel-of-goa-homily-to-technoshamanism.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/li6CoGN6Ev0" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2011/11/gospel-of-goa-homily-to-technoshamanism.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-5411411158908781150Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:51:00 +00002011-11-05T16:22:16.467-04:00memeticsreligionscientific revolutionchristianityparadigm shiftThis semester (the first semester of a Master's program) I'm taking two classes in the early (first millennium) history of Christianity and a class on New Testament Greek - so thus far my brain has essentially been bathing in a vat of history, anthropology and semiotics of the late Roman Empire. The environment on which this intellectual activity rests is characterized by my recent relocation http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/vheRdUaQI1I/memetics-religion-ancient-greco-roman.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/vheRdUaQI1I" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2011/11/memetics-religion-ancient-greco-roman.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-4799718654330056369Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:04:00 +00002011-10-16T03:13:15.958-04:00Today was a historic day. I can't even quite comprehend the magnitude of what is going on right now in the world. If nothing else, people are realizing their power.... they are realizing the truth that power comes from everywhere, and it can never be given, only taken.I come home tonight with a renewed resolve to persevere on the mission to walk the line between scholarship and activism - to be http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/Zu1X5NYCfJ8/was-at-occupy-los-angeles-today-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/Zu1X5NYCfJ8" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2011/10/was-at-occupy-los-angeles-today-in.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-7334583606327772993Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:19:00 +00002011-10-07T00:34:59.615-04:00This forthcoming content will be far more personal than is the norm for this blog, but I've realized I have to be open to this blog evolving as I do. The last two years have been rough personally for me, and I'm finally in a place where I feel like I can safely share some of the "stuff" that was really congesting my heart and soul during that time. I've lagged a bit with this blog during that http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/NclMkVw-bX8/series-on-growing-up-as-queer-mystic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/NclMkVw-bX8" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2011/10/series-on-growing-up-as-queer-mystic.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-2408253175813929051Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:23:00 +00002011-06-21T16:25:16.813-04:00The first day of our wilderness survival trip (Saturday the 11th of June), we were to meet at the parking lot of the school at 7 AM, whereupon our three instructors would take us by car to an undisclosed location. This would be the location of our 4-night/5 day survival trip, for which we’d undergo “pocket checks” to make sure we weren’t bringing anything but the clothes we were wearing. Yes, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/h6rwKG1Jsls/survival-trip-part-1-and-foreword-about.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/h6rwKG1Jsls" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2011/06/survival-trip-part-1-and-foreword-about.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-7313475954695046930Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:30:00 +00002011-06-10T17:33:31.381-04:00Seems like the dog days of summer have come early this year, because the demons have been loosed on my psyche with a special force as of late. In less than a month, I move across the country, and in the meantime (tomorrow, actually) is a 5 day survival trip that I’m embarking upon with 6 other people with whom I’ve been training in wilderness survival/primitive skills for 9 months at ROOTS Schoolhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/47i3hTSZYaU/my-vision-quest-and-some-notes-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/47i3hTSZYaU" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2011/06/my-vision-quest-and-some-notes-on.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-5954085204040404712Tue, 10 May 2011 14:04:00 +00002011-05-10T10:08:22.897-04:00foragingdandelioncoffeewildcraftingwild ediblesSo, if you are into permaculture/sustainable living like me, you probably have wondered many a time… in the midst of dreaming of your post-oil, decentralized homestead… what the hell will you do without coffee? Thus, coffee remains one of the biggest international commodities ever… the politics of which are sometimes questionable and at best even when fair-trade/organic… it still comes from half http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/EVHZ5xucv9Q/fight-globalization-with-dandelion.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/EVHZ5xucv9Q" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2011/05/fight-globalization-with-dandelion.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-6617540467428257853Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:36:00 +00002011-04-05T13:08:48.140-04:00If you have some free minutes, and don't mind being enchanted by Yeats proto-mythpunk style, read Rosa Alchemica, one of his best (that I've read) short stories.Ahh, this is such classic Yeats! Rosa Alchemica is a fictionalized narrative of one man's initiation (such as it is) into an occult alchemical order. The plot is very simple, merely providing a frame for a string of detailed descriptions http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/WIR8KsRULJw/why-i-love-yeats-and-enigmatic-science.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/WIR8KsRULJw" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2011/04/why-i-love-yeats-and-enigmatic-science.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-2843184101468663265Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:51:00 +00002011-03-14T12:04:17.006-04:00The following is a cross post from my "personal" blog, in which I responded to a post that was submitted to another blog I follow devoted to "non-binary gender identity". I wanted to post it here because it touches upon some issues of identity politics that I think are in keeping with themes here on thatgreenstuff... (and that I think should be made more visible to people outside the transgender/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/A8t4re7ZGLY/million-dollar-question-is-gender.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/A8t4re7ZGLY" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2011/03/million-dollar-question-is-gender.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-2384487793356363618Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:56:00 +00002011-01-10T11:14:44.779-05:00 Heard this interview with Terre Thaemlitz (a.k.a DJ Sprinkles) last night on All Things Considered on my slow, snowy drive home. “Most of my music is made in a kind of anti-climactic way, and very much involves boredom, and a kind of non-performativity… and if there are improvisational elements, it’s kind of parodying the idea of gesture as a kind of rock format, and critiquing thathttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/BVpOEgVBrkg/deconstructing-gender-politics-in-dance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/BVpOEgVBrkg" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2011/01/deconstructing-gender-politics-in-dance.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-4337786395986076904Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:22:00 +00002010-12-02T18:26:00.346-05:00Why haven’t I posted a pic of mah herd on here yet? I don’t know, but here they are (all 3 of them). :P They are Nigerian Dwarves. They were actually first imported to the U.S. to be fed to zoo animals, big cats and such. Eventually they began to gain some recognition as livestock for very small-scale animal husbandry… particularly micro-dairy because their milk is high in butterfat and relative http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/jQjF-CIAsZQ/dear-readers-meet-my-goats.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/jQjF-CIAsZQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2010/12/dear-readers-meet-my-goats.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7143038851295340609.post-336337405030856739Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:08:00 +00002010-11-17T16:58:45.630-05:00Just read this article in the paper today. Cool that science is finding a way to articulate how much being in the moment/having your focus consumed by a single task can be deeply satisfying. I've long understood that humans aren't one-job animals, but I think we're likewise one-job-at-a-time animals. It's not that multi-tasking is bad—but rather the option of multiple tasks is what can wear at http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~3/HTXMgf26uzw/science-concedes-being-here-now-is-way.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (the faun)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thatgreenstuff/~4/HTXMgf26uzw" height="1" width="1"/>http://farmpunk.blogspot.com/2010/11/science-concedes-being-here-now-is-way.html