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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: Category of the Natural
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 22:31:04 -0400 (EDT)
Category of the Natural The natural here and there and in-between. Since post-structuralism (if not earlier), the natural is always coupled with re/mediation. In any case, to date I've taken about 1800 digital pictures; I went through them, retrieving the 'natural' - 513 frames - and stacking them in a video. Consider this the gestalt (personal, structural) of the concept. No longer 'natural,' the 'natural' requires redefining for political-environmental reasons. This process is constant; too much is at stake to allow the 'natural,' and its related terms 'wilderness,' 'environment,' etc. - to disappear into a deconstruction in which human stewardship is given the primary role (in relation to the interiority of the in-itself); beyond use/exchange value, consider the value of valuelessness, releasement.. Simplistic as this sounds, without this continuous requesting, re-examination, what is left of the world's wild places will disappear, replaced by waste populated only by a few generalists and ravaging humans. http://www.asondheim.org/categoryofthenatural.mov