Hello all my name is Adam, and i have reading up on Donna Horoway and her Cyborg Theory. In one part she states how our economies or nation are dependent on “the appropriation of nature as resource for the productions of culture”(150) aka patriarchal capitalism. I am not going to criticize our economy (although it deserves), but the seed that was planted in my mind that our culture is dependent on “the appropriation of nature as a resource for the production” it’s very existence! This loaded sentence critically observes our separation and relationship with nature. Why do we orientated our life with a “kill or be killed” attitude with the natural world which we are a part of?

Perhaps i am getting lost i the semantics but i believe there is so much within this sentence. Such as, the alternative or plurality or relationships we could have with the living or non-living ‘natural world’. I believe as we approached peak oil this relationship will hopefully be tested, and we will explore new and ‘old’ manners of interpreting our way(s) of life. Hopefully the pot will eat up quickly and we will jump out instead of …i am not going to dreadful end game, but simply a reduction in our quality of living and probably some disappointed grandchildren. Overall a paradigm shift is nessecary, not just a simple fair trade coffee or recycled once paper cup. Hold on! before you antsy with a response, i do believe these reactionary (i do not mean this in a derogative manner) ideas are crucial as our societie(s) hopefully transition.

I am being supporter of bio-regionalism, but hey check it all out…