一座演化中的島嶼

講者：張君玫
時間：2009/9/30
地點：中山大學哲學所文學院209R
題目：全球化人性工程的界線內爆
The (in)human implosion of global boundaries


演講大綱
1. the tropology of implosion
1.1. inward movement of forces
1.2. gravity collapse structure/ black hole
1.3. rearrangement of desires and knowledges


2. the ontology of boundaries
2.1. global boundaries as consequential impossibilities
2.2. partial boundaries as situated open connecting events
2.3. constantly renewed boundaries as catachrestic acts


3. the empty signifier of the human
3.1. from a sign of struggle to an empty signifier
3.2. the nonhuman and the (in)human conditions
3.3. the (in)human implosion of global boundaries


4. the utopia/dystopia of global(ized) human engineering
4.1. the capitalist accumulation of collapsing gravity
4.2. the molecular translation of organic-mechanic entities
4.3. the revival of organism as matter and metaphor

How well we come through the era of globalization (perhaps whether we come through it at all) will depend on how we respond ethically to the idea that we live in one world.
-- Peter Singer

By Joel Kovel and Michael Lowy (Sept 2001)
Green from Below
生態社會主義宣言


The twenty-first century opens on a catastrophic note, with an unprecedented degree of ecological breakdown and a chaotic world order beset with terror and clusters of low-grade, disintegrative warfare that spread like gangrene across great swathes of the planet -- viz., central Africa, the Middle East, Northwestern South America -- and reverberate throughout the nations. In our view, the crises of ecology and those of societal breakdown are profoundly interrelated and should be seen as different manifestations of the same structural forces. ...繼續閱讀

So we choose a tiny seed to be devoted to.
This body, one path or one teacher.
Look wider and farther.
-- Jalaluddin Rumi

Corporation globalization is based on contrived rules of trade which invade our autonomous and sovereign spaces -- ecological, economic, cultural, social, political, ethical, spiritual. On the one hand, globalization redefines life as commerce and the world as commodities. On the other hand, it limits our global experience to global markets and global institutions.
-- Vandana Shiva

Manifesto on the Future of Seed

The more we advances, the more we forget. What use is our expensive technology in a sea of ignorance?
-- David Ehrenfeld

Seed is the biggest issue around democracy in food. Seed is a common resource, and we have to protect it for future generations .
-- Vandana Shiva