{"id":12715,"date":"2015-05-10T16:18:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T16:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/so-it-is-so-important-to-think-deeply-about-how\/"},"modified":"2015-05-10T16:18:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T16:18:39","slug":"so-it-is-so-important-to-think-deeply-about-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/so-it-is-so-important-to-think-deeply-about-how\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>So it is so important to think, deeply, about how the Ontological Turn\u2013with its breathless \u2018realisations\u2019 that animals, the climate, water, \u2018atmospheres\u2019 and non-human presences like ancestors and spirits are sentient and possess agency, that \u2018nature\u2019 and \u2018culture\u2019, \u2018human\u2019 and \u2018animal\u2019 may not be so separate after all\u2014is itself perpetuating the exploitation of Indigenous peoples. To paraphrase a colleague I deeply admire, Caleb Behn: first they came for the land, the water, the wood, the furs, bodies, the gold. Now, they come armed with consent forms and feeble promises of collaboration and take our laws, our stories, our philosophies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Zoe Todd,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/zoeandthecity.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/24\/an-indigenous-feminists-take-on-the-ontological-turn-ontology-is-just-another-word-for-colonialism\/\">\u201cAn Indigenous Feminist\u2019s take on the Ontological Turn: \u2018ontology\u2019 is just another word for colonialism\u201d<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/phenomeme.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">phenomeme<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it is so important to think, deeply, about how the Ontological Turn\u2013with its breathless \u2018realisations\u2019 that animals, the climate, water, \u2018atmospheres\u2019 and non-human presences like ancestors and spirits are sentient and possess agency, that \u2018nature\u2019 and \u2018culture\u2019, \u2018human\u2019 and \u2018animal\u2019 may not be so separate after all\u2014is itself perpetuating the exploitation of Indigenous peoples. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3j5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}