http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/amyw/2013/03/12/virtually-underground/ part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Thu, 23 May 2013 06:05:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/amyw/2013/03/12/virtually-underground/#comment-2086 sbayne Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:05:15 +0000 http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/amyw/?p=246#comment-2086 "Without water we are nothing, but we view water in relation to us." I think this is a really important point - we see 'water' or 'animals' or 'nature' as something also separate from us, something over which we dominate or (at least partially) control from a position of externality. That's one of the most profound messages I take from the literature which critiques 'anthropocentrism' - this idea that we are not beyond water/animal/machine etc so much as we are *of* water/animal/machine etc.... “Without water we are nothing, but we view water in relation to us.” I think this is a really important point – we see ‘water’ or ‘animals’ or ‘nature’ as something also separate from us, something over which we dominate or (at least partially) control from a position of externality. That’s one of the most profound messages I take from the literature which critiques ‘anthropocentrism’ – this idea that we are not beyond water/animal/machine etc so much as we are *of* water/animal/machine etc….

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