{"id":1519,"date":"2002-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2002\/01\/12\/the-fortunes-of-a-little-tick\/"},"modified":"2002-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"the-fortunes-of-a-little-tick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2002\/01\/12\/the-fortunes-of-a-little-tick\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fortunes of a Little Tick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Background \u00b7 I have a biological background and a deep interest in nature. \u00b7 Throughout my degree I have looked at Darwinian evolution, in the past I have compared Darwin with Nietzsche Ethology \u00b7 Ethology is looking at the behaviour of an organism within its environment. \u00b7 Writers such as Deleuze have applied ethology to philosophy. Sources \u00b7 Incorporations: Guattari\u2019s essay \u2018Regimes, Pathways, Subjects\u2019 Deleuze\u2019s work \u2018Ethology: Spinoza and Us\u2019 Key Points \u00b7 Both writers provide alternatives to the positivistic study of nature, evolution and science \u00b7 They teach us that we should look at the world around us from where we are. \u00b7 Most importantly it must be realised the animal being studied is never separable from its relations with the world \u00b7 Ethology is fragmented, \u00b7 The rise of powerful technologies leads us to a point in history where progress is irreversible Examples 1. Little Hans \u00b7 As a child little Hans maintains his innocence and can look at the world like an ethologist. \u00b7 In his eyes the Plough horse is more similar to an ox than to a race horse. 2. The tick. \u00b7 We should look at the tick by the capacities it is capable of. The tick responds to three things in three ways: 1.Light, 2. Olfactive, 3.Thermal \u00b7 The tick, like every living creature has an Umwelt. Conclusions \u00b7 We are loosing track of sustainable development. History is becoming irreversible. Maybe ethology can help? \u00b7 Deleuze succeeds in presenting us with an alternative way of looking at the world. Instead of the positivistic categorising we must look at the world from where we are. \u00b7 Guattari suggests we must think about sustainability; we can\u2019t stay where we are now, otherwise we will destroy our planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Leary, 2002, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389,22,123],"tags":[327,81,390],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-389","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-biology","tag-deleuze","tag-ethology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}