{"id":30288,"date":"2018-01-29T07:27:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T12:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30288"},"modified":"2018-01-29T07:27:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T12:27:47","slug":"inside-the-dead-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30288","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Dead Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inside the Dead Zone<\/a><\/h3>\n
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It was at a point when linguistics, cultural anthropology and continental philosophy were converging that philosopher Martin Heidegger proclaimed<\/a> \u2018language is the house of the truth of being.\u2019 The problem at hand was conceiving the role of language in an experiential (phenomenological) sense that closed the distance between the Western inheritance of Cartesian dualism, and with it the need for \u2018transcendence,\u2019 and the world.<\/p>\n

As abstruse as this probably reads, the political, economic and cultural subtexts of Western modernity: social control, economic concentration and commodification of the social realm, tie through the all-purpose apologia of neoliberal capitalism to shared premises about the structure and nature of the world. What then is to be done regarding the colloquialism \u2018don\u2019t shit where you eat\u2019 when the world is home.<\/p>\n

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Image: Oceanic \u2018dead zones\u2019 where climate change, industrial pollution and agricultural runoff, have depleted oxygen levels to the point where nothing lives, surround the U.S., developed Europe, Britain and Japan. The common link is capitalism. One would think the term \u2018dead zones\u2019 would cause reconsideration on the part of those causing them. What relationship with the world explains treating it is a garbage dump?<\/em><\/p>\n

At the nexus of linguistics and cultural anthropology is the otherwise banal observation that different peoples approach \u2018the world\u2019 differently. The Western, predominantly Platonic \/ Cartesian, conception of \u2018the world\u2019 as an external object has rough corollary in the astrophysicist\u2019s distinction between the \u2018big bang\u2019 as expansion of, rather than in, space. In the prior conception there is no dimension in which to put space. Allow for a moment that this problem of dimensionality applies to key conceits of the Western worldview.<\/p>\n

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Inside the Dead Zone It was at a point when linguistics, cultural anthropology and continental philosophy were converging that philosopher Martin Heidegger proclaimed \u2018language is the house of the truth of being.\u2019 The problem at hand was conceiving the role of language in an experiential (phenomenological) sense that closed the distance between the Western inheritance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5493,1789,14421,18194,1790,13827],"class_list":["post-30288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-counterpunch","tag-nature","tag-neoliberal-capitalism","tag-oceanic-dead-zones","tag-oceans","tag-rob-urie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30289,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30288\/revisions\/30289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}