Comments on: Meet Eater http://edgeqld.org.au/blog/2010/07/16/meet-eater/ Brisbane's Digital Culture Centre Mon, 14 May 2012 12:03:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: mindcontroll http://edgeqld.org.au/blog/2010/07/16/meet-eater/comment-page-1/#comment-5781 mindcontroll Mon, 18 Oct 2010 07:24:23 +0000 http://edgeqld.org.au/?p=3100#comment-5781 Imagine for a moment if this plant were a mouse, or a guinea pig, or a rabbit, or a cat, or a dog, or a chimpanzee. I can hear the public uproar (particularly as his/her condition degrades over time, as appears to be the fate of our (beloved?) Meet Eater. This would be deemed gratuitous cruelty to animals, subjecting one to a life of captivity, fed only by the whims of social media interactions and 'real life' visitations (which aren't 'real' anyway, but some strange anthropomorphic contrivance which involves a plant purring... whaaaat? Is is a cat? What if it were?) Bashkim Isai desires for us to reestablish a connection between human beings and plants. This bold experiment in idiocracy simply reestablishes the dominant culture's position as master above all forms of life including plants (like Meet), and the position of other forms of life as slaves to the whimsical desires of the human 'eco-elite'. Is that the connection you wished to reestablish? If so, good job. Imagine for a moment if this plant were a mouse, or a guinea pig, or a rabbit, or a cat, or a dog, or a chimpanzee. I can hear the public uproar (particularly as his/her condition degrades over time, as appears to be the fate of our (beloved?) Meet Eater. This would be deemed gratuitous cruelty to animals, subjecting one to a life of captivity, fed only by the whims of social media interactions and ‘real life’ visitations (which aren’t ‘real’ anyway, but some strange anthropomorphic contrivance which involves a plant purring… whaaaat? Is is a cat? What if it were?)

Bashkim Isai desires for us to reestablish a connection between human beings and plants. This bold experiment in idiocracy simply reestablishes the dominant culture’s position as master above all forms of life including plants (like Meet), and the position of other forms of life as slaves to the whimsical desires of the human ‘eco-elite’. Is that the connection you wished to reestablish? If so, good job.

]]> By: Meet Eater – The Story So Far. : The Edge | Digital Culture Centre http://edgeqld.org.au/blog/2010/07/16/meet-eater/comment-page-1/#comment-5584 Meet Eater – The Story So Far. : The Edge | Digital Culture Centre Wed, 13 Oct 2010 01:21:32 +0000 http://edgeqld.org.au/?p=3100#comment-5584 [...] Meet Eater is now 114 days old, and it is time to have a little look at what has been going on with our favorite flora friend. [...] [...] Meet Eater is now 114 days old, and it is time to have a little look at what has been going on with our favorite flora friend. [...]

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