busy? some how i find myself constantly moving, even when i am still, (maybe i have a disorder not confirmed though) so here is some stuff from one of my note books that i am running through. Feb 10 computers class (these things are amazing and evil at the same time i wish i had more knowledge of operation of all the different programs) Hort Club Felder Rushing came to speak to us, his main message was to be different, by using both sides of your brain... his definition of "a weed- Any plant dealing with an unhappy human."
Deconstructionism
A term tied very closely to postmodernism, deconstructionism is a challenge to the attempt to establish any ultimate or secure meaning in a text. Basing itself in language analysis, it seeks to "deconstruct" the ideological biases (gender, racial, economic, political, cultural) and traditional assumptions that infect all histories, as well as philosophical and religious "truths." Deconstructionism is based on the premise that much of human history, in trying to understand, and then define, reality has led to various forms of domination - of nature, of people of color, of the poor, of homosexuals, etc. Like postmodernism, deconstructionism finds concrete experience more valid than abstract ideas and, therefore, refutes any attempts to produce a history, or a truth. In other words, the multiplicities and contingencies of human experience necessarily bring knowledge down to the local and specific level, and challenge the tendency to centralize power through the claims of an ultimate truth which must be accepted or obeyed by all.
Example by Felder: Line, Filler, Mass= Spikey, Roundey, Frilley.
You Don't Have To Be Like Everyone Else
80% of the world lives within 5 kilometers of their food sources.... wow not here in the US though... Why Not???
2 rules for composting: 1quit throwing that stuff away! 2pile it up somewhere!!!
"Be the change you want to see in the World!!!!!!!" Gandhi...
After felder i went to accounting class and learned about using T accounts. ugh...
then i went to Mississippi's best grassroots arts/music event in Lee Hall. it was excellent free art and music with Paul Thorn, Nash Street, Kent Burnside, Eden Brent, and others...
on Feb 11 at the ASLA meeting Roger Baker and Rob Rice, the campus planner and head of campus landscape respectively spoke with us and their main point that i took away was unless they get money specifically for sustainable projects they are not really pushing the into action. they do compost amazingly. they said the budget ran about 4cents per sq. foot. and that includes athletics... they eagerly answered questions, but unless they get more funding the projects that should happen will not happen.
well i have to go work with the arbor culture team to train for the student career days and work on my flow through planters as well..
my mind is also designing landscapes for my yard, the Spears', my parents, as well as trying to get a pedicab company started in starkville, also working to get things together for Starkville in Motion, and Earth Day celebrations, plus The AT my start date is tentatively set for meeting Pinion on MAY 13 somewhere near Harper's Ferry...
Grace and Peace to all!!!
You are something. I think it is good that you are always thinking. It means you want improvement. I hope I get to see you soon
ReplyDeletewow man! i love where i am, but it would have been cool to go to hear all that hootnanny and a hollerin´ up at that there lee hall! keep up the good work and continue to challenge claims of ultimate truth which must be accepted by all. in short, question authority.
ReplyDeletealso, it seems like the campus landscape people could be more green by just adjusting what they do, no? i know that they have plenty of lackies that are tired up spreading pine straw on hillsides and would like to do something different...i guess it all seems so easy from the outside looking in.
by the way, was that guy from nash street still singing in every song and trying to make them sound like rascal flatts??? i hope not, because if so ali needs to talk to pete so he can give that i the axe with his mic time...just my opinion but whatever.
thanks for the deconstructionist talk. i feel like my brain gained a wrinkle!