GGRC24H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Labour Power, Post-Structuralism, Social Relation
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Ggrc24 lecture 2 - the production of nature. A fundamental tension exists between nature as external to humanity and nature as a social relation. Representations and claims to nature carry social, cultural and political power and consequences. Appeals to what is natural is often central to the construction of identities. The nature that preceded human history today no longer exists anywhere (marx). Ontology: is the study of the nature of being, existence, or reality. Standalone nature presents a duology with humans. Enlightenment understandings of nature are as distinct from human culture. Separation of the social and physical sciences. Processes of urbanization, which create perceived distinctions between the city and country. We must recognize that externalized, abstracted, nature-made primordial provides a source of authority to a whole language of domination (fitzsimmons, 1989). Ideas that draw upon the authority of nature nearly always have their origin in ideas about society (ross, 1994).
