Category: Research Fragment


  • Origins of Life

    Before you can have life, you have to have bacteria which is the smallest living unicellular organism. Of bacteria, the simplest is the mycoplasma cell which is 10% the size of E.coli. Before bacteria, the cell had to be born. Fritjof Capra explains it as molecular self-organization. Imagine a primordial sea intermingled and filled with…

  • Social Ecology

    ‘Environmental problems are fundamentally social and political in nature and are rooted in the historical legacies of domination and social hierarchy.’ – Brian Tokar

  • ‘Independence from nature and domination of nature are two sides of the same coin. There is no emancipation without liberation within nature.’ – criticalnaturalism.com ‘Critique promises a non-violent mode of cultural transformation, the possibility of transforming our lives with care.’ – criticalnaturalism.com

  • ‘To our contemporary world, Technic is God, in that it acts as the overall form encompassing all the various principles that structure our world.’ – Federico Campagna ‘But we cannot our bonds unless we know them. However unconscious its influences may be, a legacy of domination permeates our thinking, values, emotions, indeed our very musculature. History…

  • Go alone…refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Transcendentalism is an American philosophical, religious, political, and literary movement that started in the 19th century. It focused on social experimentation, anti-slavery, anti-capitalism, non-conformity etc. and emphasized spirituality,…