Posts Tagged: Science

  • Stephen Jay Gould in his office.

    “Cardboard Darwinism,” writes biologist Stephen Jay Gould in an essay of the same name, “is a reductionist, one-way theory about the grafting of information from environment upon organism,” or what amounts to a form of biological determinism.

  • Still from Koyannisqatsi—power lines in the desert.
    in Essays

    Dialectical Ecology

    Nature has a specific history. This is a history in which organic life, inclusive of humanity, acts on and changes the world, at the same time as the world acts on and changes organic life.