![]() ![]() ![]() The kick-off event for a yearlong commemoration of this momentous event and the tenth anniversary of Warm Data is next Tuesday, March 29th, at 8:00 AM Pacific time. and it is how I became a budding epistemologist.Ģ022 is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of one of the books that rocked my world and changed my life forever. It was where I came across anthropology, learned about logical types, encountered cybernetics as a worldview. Thumbing through my well-worn first edition, I realized it was this book that introduced me, in the summer of 1980, to the difference between analog and digital. Each revelatory exchange began with questions such as “What is an instinct?” or “Why do Frenchmen wave their arms around?” that drew me in immediately. (Can we ever forgive Facebook for absconding with the word meta ? Grrr. Though the beach was clothing optional, what I was most excited about was cracking open the book.Īs soon as I found a cozy place to settle, I dove into the opening “Metalogues,” amazing conversations between a cybernetic bio-anthropologist dad and his inquisitive daughter. The first time I rode my bike past what was then the western edge of town and found my way to the ocean’s edge, I had a paperback copy of Gregory Bateson’s Steps to an Ecology of Mind in my pocket. There was a little-known dirt path down to a small cove beyond the road to Long Marine Lab and beyond the lab itself. ![]()
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![]() ![]() These visionary authors show how queer Indigenous communities can bloom and thrive through utopian narratives that detail their vivacity and strength throughout its plight in the maw of settler colonialism's histories. Love After The End is a speculative fiction collection that showcases a number of new and emerging two-spirit and queer Indigenous writers from across Turtle Island. ![]() Love After The End won the LGBTQ anthology category. The 24 winners were selected from more than 1,000 book submissions. The annual awards celebrate the best in LGBTQ literature from around the world. Love After The End, an anthology curated by Joshua Whitehead, is one of three Canadian winners of the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She knows her space-she’s lived here longer than me and cows are smarter than I ever would have guessed. And poor Harry, she only wants to be by herself, to the point of escaping to the neighbor’s property. Scarlett lives up to her namesake-she’s melodramatic and boisterous. Jimmy, Maria, and Jax act like normal cows, grazing the way a cow should while lazing their days away in the meadows. Of course she ignores me and nuzzles my ear. ![]() “You’re so needy and it’s too hot for you to crowd me. “Moo.” Scarlett nudges me harder than before. The tasting room doesn’t open until eleven and even though I have meetings, my first event isn’t until late this afternoon. I don’t get out here every day-it depends on the schedule. Over the last year, I’ve come to enjoy my morning walk with the girls. It gives me the heebie-jeebies just thinking about it. The ticks are thick this time of year-no way am I going to risk walking with the cows in anything else. I trudge up over the hill in my Hunter rain boots. You’d think forty acres would be more than enough for five cows. I’ve got to get Morris to fix this section of fence. Heaven forbid it rains, not only is it bad for the vines, the humidity jumps to a gazillion percent. It doesn’t matter what the temps are, the humidity in the middle of summer is the worst. If I had known the humidity was this bad, I never would have settled in Virginia. My naturally frizzy locks haven’t been the same since I moved here. “Moo.” Scarlett nudges my shoulder roughly. ![]() |