{"id":1911,"date":"2014-07-13T16:22:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T16:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simorgh.de\/niceswine\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2014-07-14T19:42:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T19:42:28","slug":"we-speak-with-each-other-somehow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simorgh.de\/niceswine\/we-speak-with-each-other-somehow","title":{"rendered":"We speak with each other, somehow"},"content":{"rendered":"

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First I ought to say I hope that nobody who might be picking up on this will be trying to take the issue in a simplisitc way. It is in no regards.<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve discussed the theme of ANIMAL LANGUAGES<\/a> before in an essay I wrote a couple of years ago, and I am coming back to this topic in form of a additional project that I want to start on this site:<\/p>\n

A Human + Nonhuman mutual translation project.<\/p>\n

This is gonna be difficult, because I don’t want to imposed neither any potentially restricitve definitions<\/em> on my nonhuman fellows that I am working with, nor do I want to cater to the chorus of voices who seek to belittle Nonhumans on the basis of their cultures and languages being different and for us not translatable.<\/p>\n

But right here I must pause, because: why can’t we translate Nonhuman Animals?<\/p>\n

As I previoulsy suggested, as anti-speciesist I don’t see a difference when it comes to trying to unserstand “my opposite” – I think we can try to understand each other possibly, if we come to see our own language (and parameters) as relative<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I come from a non- or der anti-biologistic and anti-humancentric approach, and I only want to turn my views into public input, because it is horrifically ridiculous and more than that tragic, that we narrow down the idea of language to a contemporary and highly restricted definition of the term<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Animals …<\/em><\/p>\n

We speak. We all have different approaches of how we try to understand each other, but to draw a line based on biology is problematic, as long as we fail to question that parameter of explanation.<\/p>\n

I suggest to get away from any speciesist paradigm (see fragment of forms of speciesism<\/a>) and use plain and naked reason to find solitions to accepting communication as a fact in itself<\/em> (without further reproach to explicability within a humancentric dominant context) and I believe a broadened classification of ‘language” in terms of our own human language even is needed, and which can’t aswell be narrowed down to a set of neurological and technical terms.<\/p>\n

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First I ought to say I hope that nobody who might be picking up on this will be trying to take the issue in a simplisitc way. It is in no regards. I’ve discussed the theme of ANIMAL LANGUAGES before in an essay I wrote a couple of years ago, and I am coming back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,58,123],"tags":[31,24,9,30,22,17,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simorgh.de\/niceswine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simorgh.de\/niceswine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simorgh.de\/niceswine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simorgh.de\/niceswine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simorgh.de\/niceswine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/simorgh.de\/niceswine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1917,"href":"https:\/\/simorgh.de\/niceswine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions\/1917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simorgh.de\/niceswine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simorgh.de\/niceswine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simorgh.de\/niceswine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}