{"id":7082,"date":"2013-12-01T07:53:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T12:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=7082"},"modified":"2013-12-01T07:53:59","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T12:53:59","slug":"thinking-forests-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2013\/12\/01\/thinking-forests-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking forests &amp; animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one of the participants at the AAA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/aaa.confex.com\/aaa\/2013\/webprogrampreliminary\/Session8426.html\">ontology panel<\/a>, McGill anthropologist Eduardo Kohn, applying ontological speculation &#8212; including Peirce and biosemiotics &#8212; to animals and forests:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mSdrdY6vmDo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a &#8220;keynote conversation&#8221; among Kohn, Donna Haraway, and Colin Dayan from the same meeting, the UC Berkeley&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cstms.berkeley.edu\/current-events\/funny-kinds-of-love-the-ethics-and-affects-of-human-animal-relationships\/\">Funny Kinds of Love: The Ethics and Affects of Human-Animal Relationships<\/a>, from earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-6Txr39E9n0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one of the participants at the AAA&#8217;s ontology panel, McGill anthropologist Eduardo Kohn, applying ontological speculation &#8212; including Peirce and biosemiotics &#8212; to animals and forests:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[688977],"tags":[406,27399,58936,692664],"class_list":["post-7082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geo_philosophy","tag-animals","tag-forests","tag-haraway","tag-onto_epistemology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-1Qe","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8017,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2015\/02\/08\/ontology-across-the-disciplines-reading-group\/","url_meta":{"origin":7082,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Ontology Across the Disciplines&#8221; reading group","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"February 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm participating in a reading group here at the University of Vermont entitled \"Ontology Across the Disciplines.\" (More than just participating... 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