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• 1 media/40322383_568461643571065_5084946888520630272_n.jpg 2018-08-31T12:49:28-07:00 VIDEO 24 An exploration on Henry David Thoreau’s lecture/book “Walking”, 1851, and a demonstration of marginal worlds involving animals, places, humans and technology. plain 2018-10-18T01:08:38-07:00
  Edited by Suzanne Biniahan
   
  A reflection on Henry David Thoreau’s lecture/book “Walking” (1851) through the lens of marginal worlds. 
   
  Here, Suzanne walks and reflects on the idea of Enlightenment transcendentalism,  particularly the relationship between man, nature and humanity's place in society. She explores the playground of nature around her and hears the sounds, feel the textures, experience the temperatures and confront the openness of my surroundings. She is not quite in the wilderness but instead, a small park near her home. It is a place where self-reflection and understanding nature as a spiritual experience is consolidated organically. 
  
  Furthermore, side-by-side clips of marginal worlds involving animals, places, humans and technology, reflect Stacy Alaimo's concept of "intra-activity", in which humanity's experience of nature is never singular but inextricably bound to the experiences of other living creatures - both animate and inanimate - who inhabit this planet. Subsequently, anthropocentric perspectives of the world are subsumed in favour of an outlook which endows the activities and experiences of the non-human with equal social significance to the human. 
   
  “ Here is this vast, savage, hovering mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusively an interaction of man on man...”