Carbon-based life

Carbon-based life

What is complexity?

Published in Helen Cooper, Robert Geyer, Ian Botham, Riding the Diabetes Rollercoaster, 2018

Helen Cooper, Robert Geyer, Ian Botham

Beginning with orderly dynamics, the most fundamental and universalistic elements of human complexity are basic physiological functioning, in particular life and death. These physical boundaries and requirements – carbon-based life forms requiring air, water and food in order to survive and reproduce – are the most orderly aspects of human existence. Deprived of these fundamentals, a human will die. What could be more orderly?

Rethinking monogamy's nature: From the truth of non/monogamy to a dyke ethics of “antimonogamy”

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Published in Journal of Lesbian Studies, 2018

Angela Willey

A way of life can be shared among individuals of different age, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that are institutionalized. It seems to me that a way of life can yield a culture and an ethics.—Michel Foucault, “Friendship as a Way of Life” (1997)Being sexually non-exclusive is not enough to change society…. It is anti-monogamy… which aims to break down this very system that dictates how we should conduct our relationships.—Becky Rosa, “Anti-monogamy: A Radical Challenge to Compulsory Heterosexuality?” (1994)At first, I admit, what attracted me about lesbianism was the sex…. While I stood on the sidelines gaping with awe, it became clear to me that sex was merely the tip of the lesbian iceberg.—Alison Bechdel, Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch Out For (1992)

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