Kulturkampf

[Alpacx]

Clanker? Bunch of Star Wars kids who have never read or watched any other Sci-fi.

Toaster is so much better.

[HaughtyFrank]

[benji]

Watched that fearing that Black Science Man would take it seriously and wasn't going to point out the obvious.

From the way the guy worded the question I think his objection to colonialism is that like, say, British colonialism prevented China or others from colonizing the same places.

[Uncle]

ant colonies are bad because of colonialism

ants who encroach onto others' territories and consume others' food sources just because they're more efficient at it need to examine the repercussions what they're doing, look inward, decolonize their minds

[HaughtyFrank]

It does kind of highlight how there's a certain part of the left that overly values names over meanings. Like apparently all the concerns would wash away if you call it a "Moon expansion" instead of a colony.

[Eric Cartman]

"Clanker"


"Clicker"

[benji]

[DavidCroquet]

Nepenthe has been saying that the theory has deep roots in mammalian folkways!

[benji]

How did I not even click to read the description:

Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subversive and transformative guidance of marine mammals. Our aquatic cousins are queer, fierce, protective of each other, complex, shaped by conflict, and struggling to survive the extractive and militarized conditions our species has imposed on the ocean. Gumbs employs a brilliant mix of poetic sensibility and naturalist observation to show what they might teach us, producing not a specific agenda but an unfolding space for wondering and questioning. From the relationship between the endangered North Atlantic Right Whale and Gumbs’s Shinnecock and enslaved ancestors to the ways echolocation changes our understandings of “vision” and visionary action, this is a masterful use of metaphor and natural models in the service of social justice.

“Alexis Pauline Gumbs pushes us out of our comfort zone and into the sea, where other species are moving and mothering in ways that can teach us how to survive. With her beautifully rendered reflections on the habits and habitats of seals, otters and manatees, Gumbs shows us that humans aren't the only ones affected by climate change, and that other mammals know the pain of having their children hunted. Undrowned is a gift and its message is clear: The natural world offers solutions if we just pay attention.”—Dani McClain, author of We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood

"Reading Undrowned, I am re-convinced of the revolutionary potential of the life sciences, and in particular, of the necessity of a Black feminist biology. Alexis Pauline Gumbs listens so carefully to everybody —humans, whales, dolphins, corals, all beings, living and ancestral. It is a blessing that she has shared with us both what she has heard and the experimental methods for how she enacted her expansive listening. In Undrowned, Gumbs offers much-needed examples and practices for how to become sensitive and responsive to our sensitive, responsive kin-beyond-species. It is this loving attunement that makes Undrowned a work of poetry and of biology at its most perceptive and generative." —Kriti Sharma, author of Interdependence: Biology and Beyond

“Undrowned profoundly exemplifies the distinct ways that Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a liaison between the seen and unseen. Her words are libation, meditation, and an incantation that invites us to re-member the interconnectedness between humans and marine mammals. In centering Black feminist praxis, Undrowned is a non-Christocentric baptism into the depth of the ocean and the depth of ourselves. Dr. Gumbs’s offering reminds us that what is dark, hidden, and immersed in water is sacred and holy. Read it alone and with others, in parts, and whole. Come to the sea and be healed."—Aishah Shahidah Simmons, creator of NO! The Rape Documentary and author of Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse

“Alexis Pauline Gumbs breaks the surface of living as human and deep dives the depths of life in the planet’s oceans, where human life began but is now a danger to. Gumbs’s riveting, loving, genre-bending embrace of marine mammals and the human peril facing them, her mammal love, charges us to rethink and re-behave what it means to be human as she reminds us humans are mammals too, all life is sacred. On every page, Alexis Pauline Gumbs offers us a new definition of philosophy, a new definition of evolution. If we truly want a more just way of living, of being interspecies. This is a smart, black feminist, queer poetic; a love evangelist trouble making abolitionist offering. Take it. And be the change.” —Alexis DeVeaux, author of Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde

“This book is a devotional. An invitation to live more intentionally, more in harmony/Aligned.In this book, the Divine Mermaid, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, dives inside the wails of the Ancestors as she gives testament and testimony to the brilliance of Knowing Spirit beyond the veils of time, place and embodiment. Here, Alexis serves as guide and translator of vibrational realities of dreaming into how to survive, thrive and shape shift this world.”—Sharon Bridgforth, Doris Duke Performing Artist

“Alexis Pauline-Gumbs takes us on her journey into deep relationship with marine mammals to offer a much needed mapping for these times. She shares with us how these ancestral whales, dolphins, seals, manatee and walrus cousins know to navigate and survive our carelessness and what they have to teach us about how to show up to ourselves and each other. She weaves brilliantly, as always, a tapestry of investigation, history, enlightenment, and truth-telling. She weaves with a poetic commitment to connect us with our fierce sea species relatives as they help us know how to move forward in a shared commitment to the possibilities of a lived love and justice.” —Tema Okun, author of The Emperor Has No Clothes:Teaching about Race and Racism to People Who Don't Want to Know

"Following Lorde’s definition of survival at the margins, Alexis Pauline Gumbs takes an innovative approach to what it means, in her terms, to be “undrowning”. Like Lorde, Gumbs advocates for a communal approach that recognises wider kinships, but also beyond that, that recognises our (that is, an inclusive us as planetary inhabitants) shared use, abuse, and reliance on our fragile ecologies. The titular “undrowned” are identified with not only the also-titular marine mammals, but also the descendant survivors of Black enslavement and, through our communal responsibilities, all of us. The book offers a set of meditations on a variety of interrelated themes derived from both Black feminist praxis and marine mammal behaviour."
—Aimee Hinds, University of Roehampton

   

If you're curious, see if she can coherently describe her thesis in any of these interviews:




In the middle one, definitely jump to https://youtu.be/-3_GUGaZ0rI?t=603 to see two amazing minutes of intellectual content:

i feel that you're of a long lineage of people who have known about breath

[Potato]

Clanker? Bunch of Star Wars kids who have never read or watched any other Sci-fi.

Toaster is so much better.

[Eric Cartman]

Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subversive and transformative guidance of marine mammals. Our aquatic cousins are queer, fierce, protective of each other, complex, shaped by conflict, and struggling to survive the extractive and militarized conditions our species has imposed on the ocean.

Interesting way of describing one of the few animal species that are documented rapists

[Uncle]

[Uncle]

Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subversive and transformative guidance of marine mammals. Our aquatic cousins are queer, fierce, protective of each other, complex, shaped by conflict, and struggling to survive the extractive and militarized conditions our species has imposed on the ocean.

Interesting way of describing one of the few animal species that are documented rapists 

I never really understood this because most animals are opportunists taking what they want when they can get away with it, I have seen countless birds chasing other birds, or squirrels chasing other squirrels, where she clearly didn't want it but if he caught her she was gonna get it

[benji]

Most animals don't live communally, fight relentlessly over "territory" or just personal space and use no sustainable practices at all. Rand could have written a paean to the natural ways of animals without blinking an eye.

The males often spend almost all their time on toxic masculinity practices, how many species have the females left alone to raise the children completely, how many engage in entirely unequal harems, etc.

Probably don't want to get started on what happens to the "marginalized" members of every single animal species, especially any disabled ones.

[HaughtyFrank]

Academia sometimes looks like such a sham industry. Honestly who the hell reads that book, let alone thinks it's brilliant, than other academics who write similarly insane stuff

[benji]

[Uncle]

I can't wait until we all collectively stop prioritizing success and growth

[Polident]

The last bit is telling how he’s never stepped in a gym. Nobody cares about any of that. There’s a mutual understanding that, despite backgrounds, everybody there has a common purpose. You’d think they’d latch onto it as a positive example of an equal community. But like their hatred of farmers and craftsmen, the inherent bitterness betrays what they advocate.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Big "and then I wanked off the dolphin" energy.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

I never really understood this because most animals are opportunists taking what they want when they can get away with it, I have seen countless birds chasing other birds, or squirrels chasing other squirrels, where she clearly didn't want it but if he caught her she was gonna get it

Dolphins love forming rape gangs. Reminds me of Ana Valens.