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“Along with other surveillance technologies, from high-resolution satellite imaging to miniature radio tags, they will be crucial tools for preserving what's left of the world's biodiversity. […] Still, as we expand the culture of surveillance into nature's last redoubts, it might be worth keeping some […] concerns in mind: namely, that the means we use to promote biodiversity can undermine our purposes and that a technology that's right for one place isn't necessarily right for all places. Wilderness activists of the last century believed it was crucial to maintain a few places where one could hike for days without encountering cars or roads.” -'' | |||
Etinne Bensond | |||
Thinking about those words that Bendson wrote about camera traps I would like to reflect on the specific structures of nature and the urban space. I want to emphasized that those two environments are not to be seen as opposite positions within a binary system but as complex environments that contain power structures that shape human perception in different ways. | |||
Thinking about those words that Bendson wrote about camera traps I would like to reflect on the specific structures of nature and the urban space I want to emphasized that those two environments are not to be seen as opposite positions within a binary system but as complex environments that contain power structures that shape | The so called “urban space” that we as human entities are exposed to most of the time is full of structures that represent decisions that have been made as well as certain structures force us to take decisions. In my understanding this environment aims for simple/ linear structures and brings out complex structures and beings that are able and are NOT able to communicate with each other in a proper way. As a human entity I feel a lot of stress in that environment and feel the urge to fit into that structure or at least react to it. Nature can be described as a more unstructured or chaotic environment that aims to stay alive and brings out more and more complex beings that are able to adapt themselves to their surrounding as part of a evolutionary process. Most entities within that environment are able to communicate within a network that is very sensitive and effective. As a human entity I feel more relaxed in that surrounding and I feel like I am part of something bigger. | ||
One question that comes back to my mind a lot and that I would like to get an answer to is: What is the natural and what do technical devices have to do with it? Can an ecosystem that needs a forester to hunt deer be described as a natural system or not? | |||
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