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An elephant with his trunk raised is ladder to the stars. A breaching whale is a ladder from the bottom of the sea.These images are a ladder to my dreams. These letters are my ladders to you. “If you come to me at this moment, your minutes will become hours, your hours will become days, and your days will become a lifetime.” (Ashes and Snow, Gregory Colbert) In exploring the shared language and poetic sensibilities of all animals, I am working towards rediscovering the common

PDF : https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2015/12/Borges-The-Library-of-Babel.pdf "The Library of Babel" (Spanish: La biblioteca de Babel) is a short story by Argentineauthor and librarian Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), conceiving of a universe in the form of a vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format and character set. The story was originally published in Spanish in Borges' 1941 collection of stories

Once designers step away from industrial production and the marketplace we enter the realm of the unreal, the fictional, or what we prefer to think of as conceptual design—design about ideas. It has a short but rich history and it is a place where many interconnected and not very well understood forms of design happen—speculative design,1 critical design,2 design fiction,3 design futures,4 antidesign, radical design, interrogative design,5 design for debate, adversarial desig

Being involved with science and technology and working with many technology companies, we regularly encounter thinking about futures, especially about “The Future.” Usually it is concerned with predicting or forecasting the future, sometimes it is about new trends and identifying weak signals that can be extrapolated into the near future, but it is always about trying to pin the future down. This is something we are absolutely not interested in; when it comes to technology, f

Dreams are powerful. They are repositories of our desire. They animate the entertainment industry and drive consumption. They can blind people to reality and provide cover for political horror. But they can also inspire us to imagine that things could be radically different than they are today, and then believe we can progress toward that imaginary world.1 It is hard to say what today’s dreams are; it seems they have been downgraded to hopes—hope that we will not allow oursel

Visit > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology Appropriate technology is a movement (and its manifestations) encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, affordable by its users, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable, and locally autonomous. It was originally articulated as intermediate technology by the economist Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher in his work Small Is Beautiful. Both Schumacher and many modern-

Donna Haraway is a prominent feminist theorist, philosopher, and historian of science, best known for her work on the relationships between humans, animals, technology, and knowledge production. One of her key contributions, the concept of "situated knowledges," is deeply embedded in her broader critique of objectivity, science, and the way knowledge is produced. In her 1988 essay "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective,

The Sovereignty of Cyberspace On February 8, 1996, shortly after the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (which contained the Communications Decency Act) was signed into law by President Bill Clinton, John Perry Barlow uploaded his “Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace.” His declaration (see chapter 2 in this volume) began as follows: A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyber

Decolonizing agriculture in the United States: Centering the knowledges of women and people of color to support relational farming practices Emma Layman, Nicole Civita Visit > https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8793816/ Abstract While the agricultural knowledges and practices of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and women have shaped agriculture in the US, these knowledges have been colonized, exploited, and appropriated, cleaving space for the presently d