Early he states that animals should come prefect with nature, so then why does man need to prefect his own nature? Did I miss something?

I guess he does not count cave paintings to possess an wisdom or knowledge.

Damn he is right. I don't know how I feel about this. This is pretty much how biologist classify sounds made by animals.

Wait, does this mean that language can be words, but words can't be language?

def: absorb or assimilate (ideas or knowledge) or it could mean def: drink (alcohol) Why is it that every writer is somehow connected to drinking?

highlighted for definition.

def :a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly.

This goes against her earlier recommendation of not extensive reading when outline the curriculum for college.

So use rhetoric when you need to wing it? Interesting.

I think I missed this theology class.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cambridge-platonists/

Grand Blvd is a pretty good example of this.

Cf. A Theoretical Framework for the Critical Post humanities from last week

def: something that is needed or wanted.

Are the new discoveries instruments or just new sciences that will have their own instruments?

I don't know, but for some reason this just reminds me of connor.emmerich's post on the muckelbauer reading, "just like a distributed computer system uses more than one computer to run an application, this is the notion that the idea of "human" is social/communal, and does not exist on the individual level."

Me every time sciences comes up in one of these readings.

def: knowledge, awareness, or notice.

From Latin propensus, past participle of propendere "incline to, hang forward, hang down, weigh over," and is defined as "an often intense natural inclination or preference"

I feel like he would agree with this.

Not really related to this course, but I took a philosophy class last semester and there was a few classes where we talked about everyone's other favorite philosopher, Kant, pretty much blamed Hume for the death of metaphysics.

humour as in how one responses to funny things or like humorism the old method of solving medical problems (the four humors)?

If mixed modes = abstractions does that mean substances are actual physical things?

def: the quality of being sagacious Sagacious Def: having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgment; shrewd.

def: lasting for a very short time

def: omit (a sound or syllable) when speaking.

Isn't this the opposite of what was stated before in the other annotation about cybernetics and US posthumanism vs European posthumanism.

I believe Braidotti has a similar idea of moving away from a logocentric ideas/narratives in order to understand the shift that is occurring.

: the state of being recalcitrant def of recalcitrant: obstinately defiant of authority or restraint

Bildung refers to the German tradition of self-cultivation, wherein philosophy and education are linked in a manner that refers to a process of both personal and cultural maturation.

why did you pick a brewery as the destination?

Think solar system. It was extremely helpful in moving quantum theory froward and is still widely accepted as the best model with a slight change instead of set paths the electrons travel in a cloud area around the nucleus.

Interesting word choice in my opinion. Def: shared by or involving three parties.

Additionally used in Theology as to describe humankind having three part: Body, Spirit, and Soul.

Also if it is passing out of sight/fading can it really be foundational? They seem kind of at odds with each other, but I guess posthumanism seems to ride right down the middle for everything else is this paper.

RIP CCC/CGC

Isn't this just accelerationism from earlier? The change in capital and how it is used is allowing for social change.

She is talking about map making, right? or am i just completely lost. Honestly I am lost.

(Def.) soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence, quickly fading or disappearing.

A philosophical concept developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972–1980) project.

Literally means "the state of being cast off" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjection

Doesn't mixing human motives allow Apple to pick parts from different motives which could lead to a pure motive.

Latin for "hatred of/to the history of literature and words?" Not 100% sure on this.

A positive-feedback system is a system in which the output is enhanced when a stimulus is received.

The best example that is used in most science classes at SLU is childbirth. Oxytocin is released when a child places pressure on the cervix for the first time triggering contractions. As the child begins to crown and places more pressure on the cervix, additional oxytocin is released. This triggers even more contractions and eventually the child is born. I apologize for the gross explanation, but it is the best one to explain what the system is.

From the Latin phrase infra dignitatem meaning beneath one; demeaning. First used by Sir Walter Scott in his 1825 novel Redgauntlet

There are multiple agencies that have protected works that existed pre-technology and after each technological change. In the United States we have the National Film Registry, the Library of Congress, the National Archives and Records Administration, and some would even consider the Smithsonian as well.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Film_Registry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Archives_and_Records_Administration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian_Institution, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress)

Can someone clarify this statement for me? I have no idea where Foucault is going with this. From what I understand the letter does work on two people the recipient and self. The work on self is done through introspection, but not to discovery the mean of self, but rather provides an opening to understand self.

If epicyclic in this case means that there is a culturally plateau, how can an achievement be epicyclic? That sounds like a bad thing.

If rhetoric is grounded in biological potentials why would it need to recruit from the spiritual, won't it just occur naturally? I dont know maybe I am misunderstanding his point.

As cultures being to "die out" does the rhetoric that the culture has provided also die out or is it adopted by other cultures that have stemmed from the original culture?

adj: relating to signs and symbols

Kind of sounds like Le Guin's idea of viewing a certain parts of works as a carrier instead of a weapons provides an outcome that is "good".

Shamanism is a practice that involves a practitioner reaching altered states of consciousness in order to perceive and interact with what they believe to be a spirit world and channel these transcendental energies into this world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamanism

(of the wind) blow

Completely unrelated to this reading, but did you know Dr. Rickert while you were at Purdue?

Sounds like Rickert and Muckelbauer agree that rhetoric includes works outside of language (ie writing, speaking, and debate).

I honestly don't know how to word this well enough to get my point across, but here it goes. Le Guin's in a nut shell is saying that using technology as a weapons will lead to tragic on a global level, but using it as a cultural bag could lead to a outcome that is beneficial for everyone involved. Words which hold meaning are a form of technology therefore in order to have the most realist settings and outcomes they should be used as carrier of information in a work. The best explanation that I can think of in which this is held true is the move Arrival (2016), which you guessed it is a Syfy.

Going off the VonderMeer side note here, I have not read Annihilation, but have seen the adaptation that was released in 2018. So I could be wrong it could be like the Percy Jackson Movie that was nothing like the book. Maybe Spoiler Alert The ending has the biologist begins to accept that the Shimmer is not there to attack and destroy, but rather to create something new through containing all of the people that enter it. This ending works well with Le Guin idea that viewing fiction something as a container/bag can provide a more pleasant outcome than viewing fiction as a weapon which leads to an outcome that is apocalyptic.

This seems to provide a connection to the botulism definition earlier in the text. Maybe she was referring to heroism being a poisonous due to it being imperfect and only including the "male" aspect of the story.

Botulism comes from the the German Botulismus which pretty much means sausage which is a the source of the botulin toxin which was discovered around 1897. Botulism is potentially fatal now, but in the past was extremely fatal. Maybe I am looking into this too much, but was Woolf trying to make heroism seem like something that was poisonous due to it being imperfect or did she just redefine it because it sounded different?