[NetBehaviour] fear of networked creativity

[Simon Mclennan]

Cheers Joel - interesting link you made there.

Mmm, on the subject of the body, the animal body - when I think about how other animals (let alone human on human) are taken for granted by us,
as if they were a piece of inert rock, literally controlled, like robots, or glove puppets. As if they are animations in a game, or a pair of socks - 
when I think how we take this for granted - how we exercise a power so supreme over them - like gods - quite dirty, grubby gods - 
how we manipulate their bodies through selective breeding, as if something like THE BIBle said it was OK to do that, that a god in the sky, Jehovah, told Adam that we could do as we pleased,
that this was OK, to use them for our pleasure and sport - for the taste - the juice running down our lips , In Ur, - the joy of 
owning a certain breed of dog - tiny little legs of a sausage dog - flat faced pug to look chic in the sleeves of a mandarin, or on the lap of a Hollywood diva, or
some chav from Solihull, Kensington of Quebec - how we experiment on them, because we can, in cages, bred in tiny cages in China, in America, for the taste of the bacon - we differentiate -
our dogs get pride of place - a pig, as intelligent and as sociable as any dog - gets bred bred bred for ever Amen and the bacon grease -
The brutalised bodies of factory farm workers and meat workers, slaughter men, underpaid and themselves brutalised to brutalise in turn the chunks of living flesh
they process through - for the profit of the owners and the shareholders - mmmmm -  what bodies, what bodies, what bodies,

and the war we wreak on our fellow humans, will never ever ever stop, until we treat other species with the respect they deserve - that is, as fellow beings on
this "existential adventure” (Anat Pick - Creaturely Poetics)

It makes me so sad, and I urge you all to think and feel this one through, please please think about it,

S

 
On 18 Jul 2014, at 17:39, Joel Weishaus <joelweishaus at gmail.com> wrote:

> Simon;
> 
> The bottom photo, B&W, grainy, figures zombi-like, even Butoh-like. Something timeless here, out-of-time. Art.
> 
> -Joel
> 
> 
> On 7/18/2014 2:10 AM, Simon Mclennan wrote:
>> "Butoh gropes beneath the overlay of socialisation and cultural authoritarianism for 
>> 'the body that has been robbed'...the 'fiery body', the wild inner flame in the heart of darkness."  (Taghairm Arts) 
>> 
>> To see a collection of most of my films, and history of street painting:
>> 
>> http://simonmclennan.blogspot.co.uk
>> 
>> Simon
>> 
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