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kiefbowl · 1 year ago

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all our lives are complicated symbiosis in which we play multiple sometimes contradictory roles. “straight people” are not a character in a tv show with specific set of dialogue, but a large body of people who have a variety of different interests. some of them are taking the opportunity of the moment to act according to their liberal ideas of homophobia. and this post is about them. no majority, no if these not those, just like here I am venting about annoying straight people who love the idea of a queer movements and have snuggled their little asses in it so they can be highly corrosive fucks willing to talk over normie lgb people! Don’t care about the numbers just care that if it’s one it’s one too many!!!

straight people convincing gay people to call themselves queer people to push a monoculture bc they hate the idea that gay and bi people are the gay and bi culture by doing nothing. yep we just don’t have to do anything and the culture comes from us even if we’re boring or private or uncool. and straight people are like I want to get in on the parts I can make a mockery of okay sure worstie and now I got hear every gay and bi person I know call the things they do queer and explain how everyone is the same actually. No. Do not fall for the straight poison!!!!

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arcticdementor · 5 years ago

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“Culture is the secret of humanity’s success” sounds like the most vapid possible thesis. The Secret Of Our Success by anthropologist Joseph Henrich manages to be an amazing book anyway.

Henrich wants to debunk (or at least clarify) a popular view where humans succeeded because of our raw intelligence. In this view, we are smart enough to invent neat tools that help us survive and adapt to unfamiliar environments.

Against such theories: we cannot actually do this. Henrich walks the reader through many stories about European explorers marooned in unfamiliar environments. These explorers usually starved to death. They starved to death in the middle of endless plenty. Some of them were in Arctic lands that the Inuit considered among their richest hunting grounds. Others were in jungles, surrounded by edible plants and animals. One particularly unfortunate group was in Alabama, and would have perished entirely if they hadn’t been captured and enslaved by local Indians first.

These explorers had many advantages over our hominid ancestors. For one thing, their exploration parties were made up entirely of strong young men in their prime, with no need to support women, children, or the elderly. They were often selected for their education and intelligence. Many of them were from Victorian Britain, one of the most successful civilizations in history, full of geniuses like Darwin and Galton. Most of them had some past experience with wilderness craft and survival. But despite their big brains, when faced with the task our big brains supposedly evolved for – figuring out how to do hunting and gathering in a wilderness environment – they failed pathetically.

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How do hunter-gatherers know how to do all this? We usually summarize it as “culture”. How did it form? Not through some smart Inuit or Fuegian person reasoning it out; if that had been it, smart European explorers should have been able to reason it out too.

The obvious answer is “cultural evolution”, but Henrich isn’t much better than anyone else at taking the mystery out of this phrase. Trial and error must have been involved, and less successful groups/people imitating the techniques of more successful ones. But is that really a satisfying explanation?

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All of this is cultural. Henrich is kind of cruel in his insistence on this. He recommends readers go outside and try to start a fire. He even gives some helpful hints – flint is involved, rubbing two sticks together works for some people, etc. He predicts – and stories I’ve heard from unfortunate campers confirm – that you will not be able to do this, despite an IQ far beyond that of most of our hominid ancestors. In fact, some groups (most notably the aboriginal Tasmanians) seem to have lost the ability to make fire, and never rediscovered it. Fire-making was discovered a small number of times, maybe once, and has been culturally transmitted since then.

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Human children are obsessed with learning things. And they don’t learn things randomly. There seem to be “biases in cultural learning”, ie slots in an infant’s mind that they know need to be filled with knowledge, and which they preferentially seek out the knowledge necessary to fill.

One slot is for language. Human children naturally listen to speech (as early as in the womb). They naturally prune the phonemes they are able to produce and distinguish to the ones in the local language. And they naturally figure out how to speak and understand what people are saying, even though learning a language is hard even for smart adults.

Another slot is for animals. In a world where megafauna has been relegated to zoos, we still teach children their ABCs with “L is for lion” and “B is for bear”, and children still read picture books about Mr. Frog and Mrs. Snake holding tea parties. Henrich suggests that just as the young brain is hard-coded to want to learn language, so it is hard-coded to want to learn the local animal life (little boys’ vehicle obsession may be a weird outgrowth of this; buses and trains are the closest thing to local megafauna that most of them will encounter).

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Another slot is for gender roles. By now we’ve all heard the stories of progressives who try to raise their children without any exposure to gender. Their failure has sometimes been taken as evidence that gender is hard-coded. But it can’t be quite that simple: some modern gender roles, like girls = pink, are far from obvious or universal. Instead, it looks like children have a hard-coded slot that gender roles go into, work hard to figure out what the local gender roles are (even if their parents are trying to confuse them), then latch onto them and don’t let go.

In the Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis, humans live in obligate symbiosis with a culture. A brain without an associated culture is incomplete and not very useful. So the infant brain is adapted to seek out the important aspects of its local culture almost from birth and fill them into the appropriate slots in order to become whole.

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I was inspired to read Secret by this review on Scholar’s Stage. I hate to be unoriginal, but after reading the whole book, I agree that the three sections Tanner cites – on divination, on manioc, and on shark taboos – are by far the best and most fascinating.

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But being genuinely random is important in pursuing mixed game theoretic strategies. Henrich’s view is that divination solved this problem effectively.

I’m reminded of the Romans using augury to decide when and where to attack. This always struck me as crazy; generals are going to risk the lives of thousands of soldiers because they saw a weird bird earlier that morning? But war is a classic example of when a random strategy can be useful. If you’re deciding whether to attack the enemy’s right vs. left flank, it’s important that the enemy can’t predict your decision and send his best defenders there. If you’re generally predictable – and Scott Aaronson says you are – then outsourcing your decision to weird birds might be the best way to go.

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Rationalists always wonder: how come people aren’t more rational? How come you can prove a thousand times, using Facts and Logic, that something is stupid, and yet people will still keep doing it?

Henrich hints at an answer: for basically all of history, using reason would get you killed.

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Henrich discusses pregnancy taboos in Fiji; pregnant women are banned from eating sharks. Sure enough, these sharks contain chemicals that can cause birth defects. The women didn’t really know why they weren’t eating the sharks, but when anthropologists demanded a reason, they eventually decided it was because their babies would be born with shark skin rather than human skin. As explanations go, this leaves a lot to be desired. How come you can still eat other fish? Aren’t you worried your kids will have scales? Doesn’t the slightest familiarity with biology prove this mechanism is garbage? But if some smart independent-minded iconoclastic Fijian girl figured any of this out, she would break the taboo and her child would have birth defects.

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There’s a monster at the end of this book. Humans evolved to transmit culture with high fidelity. And one of the biggest threats to transmitting culture with high fidelity was Reason. Our ancestors lived in Epistemic Hell, where they had to constantly rely on causally opaque processes with justifications that couldn’t possibly be true, and if they ever questioned them then they might die. Historically, Reason has been the villain of the human narrative, a corrosive force that tempts people away from adaptive behavior towards choices that “sounded good at the time”.

Why are people so bad at reasoning? For the same reason they’re so bad at letting poisonous spiders walk all over their face without freaking out. Both “skills” are really bad ideas, most of the people who tried them died in the process, so evolution removed those genes from the population, and successful cultures stigmatized them enough to give people an internalized fear of even trying.

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This book belongs alongside Seeing Like A State and the works of G.K. Chesterton as attempts to justify tradition, and to argue for organically-evolved institutions over top-down planning. What unique contribution does it make to this canon?

First, a lot more specifically anthropological / paleoanthropological rigor than the other two.

Second, a much crisper focus: Chesterton had only the fuzziest idea that he was writing about cultural evolution, and Scott was only a little clearer. I think Henrich is the only one of the three to use the term, and once you hear it, it’s obviously the right framing.

Third, a sense of how traditions contain the meta-tradition of defending themselves against Reason, and a sense for why this is necessary.

And fourth, maybe we’re not at the point where we really want unique contributions yet. Maybe we’re still at the point where we have to have this hammered in by more and more examples. The temptation is always to say “Ah, yes, a few simple things like taboos against eating poisonous plants may be relics of cultural evolution, but obviously by now we’re at the point where we know which traditions are important vs. random looniness, and we can rationally stick to the important ones while throwing out the garbage.” And then somebody points out to you that actually divination using oracle bones was one of the important traditions, and if you thought you knew better than that and tried to throw it out, your civilization would falter.

Maybe we just need to keep reading more similarly-themed books until this point really sinks in, and we get properly worried.

#slate star codex #book review #joseph henrich #read the whole thing

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thedummymen-blog · 6 years ago

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DIALOGUES AT THE PORT OF THE UNBOUGHT: Part 1 By the DummyMen

“The Ethiopians are black, the Egyptians thieves, the North Africans cruel, the Damascans liars, and of these four peoples it is the Black who will soonest lose the imprint of the stamp which marks his nature.”

MZ(Dumdum): Part of the general unease of black Africans who come across the discourse of afropessimism, outside, of course, its coming on the heels of two distinct formulations in the 1980s and 1990s that go under the same name and thus may confuse the listener as to which afropessimism one is being confronted with (and this polysemic history of the term with regards to both inside and outside the continent I think is an underexplored theme) is where and how to situate oneself in regards to its locus of enunciation - the U.S-, its articulation of blackness, and its argument that blackness is in a symbiotic relationship with slavery, a symbiosis consummated in and as social death.

One way to broach this unease, or even attempt to abate it, is through the thematic of the black forced to leave and the African left behind. This approach that perhaps privileges an idea of a splitting of a once-whole unit, whether filial or affilial, is not unrelated to the popular rendition of a western modernity that goes on to stipulate the parameters of the properly political, philosophical, social, cultural, scientific and economic. The Atlantic basin, or the New World, thus offers us the proper subject of the political -in whatever guise- against which the rest of the globe now must stand in contention. In this scenario then, the black slave becomes the ultimate degraded non-subject whilst black Africa is geographically lumped in with the rest of the colonized world, and historically locked firmly within the 18th and 19th centuries along with (anti)colonialism’s concomitant articulations of conflict, oppression, and most importantly of course, liberation.

But our African reader still has questions. How then is she to think of the slave relation in Mauritania between the Haratin and the al-beydan? What of the pressures exerted by the Egyptian and Ottoman forces, or at various periods the Hijaz, on the bilad al-Sudan (literally ‘’the land of the blacks’’ from Arabic which in turn was translated into English by British and American mappers as ‘’Negroland’’ and ‘’Nigritia’’ respectively) via a racialized permanent servile status of its inhabitants? Wherever one looks one is faced with provincially customary distinctions made between, say a Fur and a Fartit in Western Sudan, a Jilec and a Jareer in Somalia or a Habesha and a Barya in Ethiopia. These convoluted local histories themselves are then entangled within a wider orbit of a slaving, slave-trading or slave-holding (or all of the above and more) paradigm that boasts of a much older and long-standing appetite for African slaves in the Indian Ocean basin. If we take seriously the assertion by Frank Wilderson and others that slavery and blackness become imbricated at some point in the 7th century A.D. and follow Bernard Siegel’s thesis that “slavery must be considered in its relationships to the entire social structure’’, then the black African today is left with an unenviable task with regards to the ethics involved in making methodological and political sense of the aforementioned ‘’convolutions’’ and ‘’entanglements’’. But then again, when was the black African ever not in an unenviable position?

AJ(Yumyum): Exactly! The position is unenviable no matter what side of the Atlantic or Indian Oceans, Red or Mediterranean Seas one is on. And here, between all sides of the East & West and North & South divide there is an ontological sameness, a shared ontological misfortune, that often gets ignored. And those distinctions in Africa proper between a Fur and a Fartit or a Habesha and a Barya are unthought and unquestioned sociopolitical positions that have seemed to somehow come from the heavens. But you, as is Wilderson, are making the point that this has not always been the case. And this relational matrix in the hinterland and coastal regions is ignored because I think it is deeply painful to draw these sorts of conclusions that something is happening on the inside of our psyches and on the inside of our romanticized and prefixed places of species origin.

Now let me attempt to bring these twin universes (Africa and the Americas) of existence together. On the African continent you have, as Tsenay Serequeberhan points out, “the inherited and taken for granted self conception of African “liberation” as the guise and mask of neocolonialism”. And similarly in the US context Saidiya Hartman, when speaking to the legal emancipation of the slave, asks the question: “Suppose that the recognition of humanity held out the promise not liberating the flesh or redeeming one’s suffering but rather of intensifying it?” By connecting and thinking about these two historical happenings together we learn that liberation and emancipation as legal events do the work of intensifying the suffering of the afflicted in quotidian and lessly spectacular ways in the everyday. Hereby binding tighter and hiding more cleverly the unattended corrosive open flesh wounds derived from the cultural unconscious in the form of the stereotype beneath the ego structure of the slave’s psyche. That is to say that if we do not do the heavy lifting now and think about how we have been negotiating captivity and about how the ruses of liberation and emancipation have been originary to our political, social, cultural and economic delusions, then the tragicomedy, our existence in the invertible, will be on play ad infinitum.

The truth is that, as David Marriott reminds us, “Fanon [in ‘Black Skin White Masks’] makes it difficult for us to avoid facing the fact that the ego just is where the stereotype returns - but the stereotype is just the real occupying the ego” and this trojan horse is “the enemy attacking the ego from within”. This means that the stereotype that seeks to disfigure the ego returns to itself as the psychic force that has been sent from without to terminate it. And this is all unconscious. One’s alienation of one’s self from certain aspects of one’s self is a mystifying and fetishizing practice that enables one to save themselves from themselves(??). We can call this objective vertigo a tragicomedy. You introduced me to this text by way of this quote taken from a larger one you first threw my way. And damn! It was a vibe I damn near couldn’t handle.

Nevertheless, the ruse of liberation beyond the imposition of structural adjustment programs, unfair trade treaties and the like is that “just as Christianity and civilization once [were used to serve] the purposes of conquest and empire, [new code words like] "good-governance," "global stability," "development," "economic growth," "international cooperation," "food aid," "cultural exchange programs," "human rights," "rule of law," etc.[...are the way] the West now perpetuates its hegemony.” In light of this the Sisyphean like failures of post-colonial Africa we can see the same unconscious Fanon identified in ‘Wretched of the Earth’ is still operative. Hence, “at the level of the unconscious, therefore, colonialism was not seeking to be perceived by the indigenous population as a sweet, kind hearted mother who protects her child from a hostile environment, but rather a mother who constantly prevents her basically perverse child from committing suicide or giving free rein to its malevolent instincts. The colonial mother is protecting the child from itself, from its ego, its physiology, its biology, and its ontological misfortune.” This unconscious line of thinking has been calibrated in very predictable and unethical ways as of late - spurring the growth in literature focused on pointing out the good that the colonial project in Africa brought to its inhabitants; even being bold to the point of recommending that these colonial arrangements be reduplicated.* Here the indelible legacies “of [irreparable] separation - and [eternally persisting] continuities” are the issues, that up to this point, “African philosophy has failed to take up”. The psychological effects (and affects) of the “the slave trade and colonialism” cannot be ignored by the Black-African. It is now more pertinent for us to look to this. For the “lingering doubt of the very possibility of self-government” is becoming ever more pronounced. And this entails for a inward look inside ourselves by ourselves and for ourselves as we simultaneously excavate (as best we can) the outside from within ourselves.

I’m not sure if you remember the Africa-Compton map that Kendrick Lamar put on display during his 2016 Grammy performance, but it captured, to the great dismay and disapproval of Afropolitans everywhere (one can recall the flurry of op-eds and blog posts that came to the defense of the particularity of the ethnic and national identities of Africans. And the feverish way in which Lamar’s presumed ‘hotepery’ and penchant for race essentialism was rigorously denounced), the shared ontological sameness between the ‘beneficiaries’ of legal-politico ‘non-events’ of liberation and emancipation by way of unveiling the cartographic reality of international Blackness. The political and cultural conditions that made Fanon write that “colonialism, little troubled by nuances, has always claimed that the “nigger” was a savage, not an Angolan or a Nigerian, but a “nigger” are still in place. Still, Lamar’s Africa-Compton map in one fell swoop illustrated, as Sylvia Wynter put it, the “connections and correlations between the contemporary state of Africa and the United States’ Black jobless inner cities and their correlated prison system.” If the Americas are the Slave Estate proper then Africa is the den of slaves. I mean even aspiring African politicos with neoliberal proclivities such as Berhanu Nega (leader of the Ethiopian opposition group, Ginbot 7) understand this to a certain extent when he says: “whether you are called Abebe or Jimmy if you know how this country [(America)] works as you should, then, you must know that you are all ‘niggers’ in their eyes.”

#africa #postcolonialism #afropessimism #black diaspora

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nuclearblastuk · 6 years ago

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KHEMMIS | ZACH, PHIL AND DAN DISCUSS THEIR NON-METAL MUSICAL INFLUENCES

Denver based four-piece KHEMMIS release their third studio album Desolation last week via 20 Buck Spin in North America and Nuclear Blast Entertainment for the rest of the world. Having already dominated the US scene, with their previous full length release Hunted being named 'Album of the Year 2016' by Decibel magazine, it's now time for KHEMMIS to take over Europe with their crushing doom-infused heavy metal. We spoke to Zach, Phil and Dan from the band about their non-metal musical influences and if any of their picks influenced the creation of their new album, Desolation - watch the third part here: https://youtu.be/epX6xKjm_gE ICYMI: Part 1: https://youtu.be/j_7eJIHjEh0 Part 2: https://youtu.be/MStrj-UVl-U The band commented on the new release: "Desolation is the clearest distillation yet of who we are as a band; a celebration of heavy metal that doesn't sacrifice our focus on personal, emotionally-charged songwriting. Thank you all for your support and we'll see you on the road!" Desolation is out now via 20 Buck Spin in North America and via Nuclear Blast Entertainment throughout the rest of the world. The bewitching cover artwork for the new album was created by Sam Turner (Black Breath, 3 Inches Of Blood, In The Company Of Serpents). Desolation is available for order now: All formats: http://nblast.de/KhemmisDesolation *Limited Edition* Orange Vinyl: http://nblast.de/khemmisdesolationNB *Limited Edition* Digisleeve CD: http://nblast.de/KhemmisDesolationCD *Limited Edition* Black Vinyl: http://nblast.de/KhemmisDesolationVinyl Order on iTunes to receive 'Isolation' and 'Bloodletting' as instant-grat tracks: http://nblast.de/KhemmisDesolationIT "This Denver quartet's six-track follow-up to 2016's Hunted is a thundering blend of NWOBHM riffs shot through with sternum-shuddering doom." **** - Planet Rock "Masters of epic, melodic and elegantly intricate doom metal anthems....this album is both adventurous and disarmingly timeless." - Prog Magazine "Desolation's six anthems of stadium-striving power is an uplifting collection of soaring vocals, lead guitar showmanship and grooving gallop...." - Metal Hammer "On Desolation, their third album, they come on like a cross between the classic '80s metal of genre kings Candlemass and fiddly Canadian prog lords Rush - and it's a mixture that's entirely agreeable!" - Kerrang! Magazine The Desolation track list reads as follows: 1. Bloodletting 2. Isolation 3. Flesh To Nothing 4. The Seer 5. Maw Of Time 6. From Ruin Watch the official video for 'Isolation': https://youtu.be/xZd2liHm8P8 Watch the official visualizer for 'Bloodletting': https://youtu.be/P073izSb9bQ

Khemmis' passion for progressive and soulful heavy music is more evident than ever. Though undeniably influenced by doom and classic metal, to tag them with those labels doesn’t do justice to what’s accomplished on Desolation; a perfect representation of modern heavy metal in 2018 that integrates the past in a way only possible in the present. It's impossible to ignore the lengths that the four piece go to, to master their craft and produce a highly unique form of heavy sound. Their magnificently uplifting, yet sorrowful groovy riffs weave you along on an unparalleled journey. Desolation is not just the best Khemmis record to date but a testament to the quality that heavy metal is still capable of. From the stadium-sized opening notes of 'Bloodletting' it is immediately evident that Khemmis is again putting distance between themselves and their earlier influences, to inform a sound that is singularly their own. 'Isolation' - which the band recently aired live in the US on their tour with Enslaved, Wolves In The Throne Room and Myrkur - is the album’s lead single and most immediate track, with the classic metal melodies the band have become revered for shining throughout. On epic closer 'From Ruin' and throughout the entirety of the album, the lead vocals and melodies of Phil Pendergast are the clearest, most powerful and best arranged that the band has achieved. Working for the third time with Dave Otero at Flatline Audio in Denver, the band and producer now have the familiarity and mutual experience to arrive at the perfect symbiosis of songwriting, arrangement and production value. Desolation is an album that fans of Paradise Lost, Candlemass, Judas Priest, Thin Lizzy, Iron Maiden, Spirit Adrift, Pallbearer, Yob, Warning, Atlantean Kodex, High On Fire, Metallica and Corrosion Of Conformity should not miss.

Formed in 2012 in Denver USA, Khemmis have released two albums to date. 2015‘s Absolution and 2016‘s Hunted paint a unique portrait; encompassing spiralling progressive doom, fuzz-toned stoner riffs, syrupy sludge and churning classic grooves. They transcend traditional doom forming elegant yet dramatic tracks, conveying their unique sense of melancholy edged with a sense of foreboding. Debut record Absolution earned the four piece outright critical praise from the underground, plus achieving them a place within Decibel Magazine's 'Top 40 Albums of the Year' list allowing their impact to slowly start seeping into the mainstream consciousness. Hunted broke down those final barriers in the USA, earning Khemmis more widespread recognition, ranging from glowing reviews at Metal Sucks, Metal Injection and Pitchfork, to earning them a spot in Rolling Stone‘s '20 Best Metal Albums of 2016' list and Decibel's highly sought after 'Album of the Year' accolade.

#khemmis #desolation #new album #doom metal #Nuclear Blast

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literary-structures · 7 years ago

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Trans womanhood continues to be treated as a topic of playful debate for the chattering classes in places like Sydney, New York, and London. The stakes are high—Mike Pence is now a heartbeat away from the Oval Office, “bathroom bills” are cropping up across the U.S., and Trump appointees are busy rolling back any gains won under the Obama administration. We cannot lay primary responsibility for this state of affairs at the feet of anti-trans feminists—their influence is not so great. But the damage they do is real: Not only do they open space for liberals and leftists to opt out of trans solidarity, but they also provide rhetorical cover and ammunition for right-wing attacks.The liberal impulse to grant anti-trans positions airtime as part of a “debate”—exacerbated by profit-seeking publishers operating in an economy of rage clicks and engineered controversy—is corrosive. Every time a prominent anti-trans feminist is taken seriously as an interlocutor in liberal or left spaces, arguing with them saps us of precious time and energy. That in turn weakens our ability to fight right-wing encroachments, putting people in serious danger: at work, at home, in jail, on the street, at swimming pools, at the doctor, and in public restrooms. This is to say nothing of the anti-trans feminists who explicitly work with groups like Focus on the Family to push for a poisonous policy agenda, continuing a long and ugly tradition of symbiosis with the religious Right.Debate is not a useful mode of engagement with the people whose sense of self and/or clickbait-derived paycheck is dependent on their bigoted position. To reiterate: This is not a moral argument but a tactical one. We don’t need a detailed grasp of Gramsci, Foucault, or Overton to understand that profound political struggles play out on the terrain of what can or cannot be considered a reasonable topic of debate. Professional anti-trans feminists know this: For them, getting past the gatekeepers into sanctioned public discourse remains a goal. The new(ish) online vectors may have changed the game, but not to the point where Julie Bindel will turn down a Guardian column in favor of a Reddit AMA.Blocking professional bigots when they try to use institutionally endorsed platforms is not equivalent to censorship, and need not involve calling on the state or administrative enforcers to do such work for us. Rejecting their presence in the few organizing spaces, publications, and other institutions where we have influence remains useful, in order to deprive them of the oxygen they might use to grow, the resources we might divert to their bank accounts, and the energy that we would spend on engaging with them. No fucking quarter.

Kylie Benton-Connell, ‘Up for Debate: Reflections from the TERF wars about dismantling bigotry on the left’ (2018)

#feminism #transphobia

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loyallogic · 5 years ago

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Batteries Waste Management Rules, 2001

This article is written by Paridhi Goel, a B.A.LLB student from Symbiosis Law School. This is an exhaustive article which deals with the rules on Batteries waste management that came in the year 2001, its provisions, and the need for certain reforms and changes for enhancement.

Introduction

There is an increasing demand for batteries all over the world because of an increase in the usage of portable power-consuming products for example- laptops, computers, cellular phones, video cameras, TV Remotes, toys, and other electronic devices. It is known that these batteries that we use contain toxic metals and sometimes even corrosive materials like cadmium, mercury, lead, lithium, etc which can be harmful to the environment and can pose a threat to the health of living beings when disposed of improperly. Since these devices that we use have become a part of our daily life, it was necessary to draft some rules regarding the efficient disposal of batteries and proper waste management only to reduce the harmful impact of the batteries on the environment and to safeguard the health of the living species.

The Central Government viewed the disposal of battery waste as more important than battery production and thus, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) notified the final rules to regulate the collection and recycling of all the used lead-acid batteries in India entitled as “Batteries (Management and Handling) Rules, 2001 on May 16, 2001. The Act is applicable for the management of batteries in the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 and it extends to the whole of India. Since the problem of battery waste management has become a global concern,it is only the right step for India to prevent it from deteriorating our air, water bodies, or soil. The rules are expected to be followed and further, the article talks about the main provisions that we all should know about waste management.

Need for a Plan

Handling of battery waste is an important issue to be addressed because we are using a lot of battery-operated equipment only to make our work quick and easy. A battery is used to convert the chemical energy stored in its active materials into electrical energy through a system of circuits. So, when it comes to disposing of the waste or used up batteries, they cannot be treated as regular trash due to the presence of heavy metals and toxic chemicals in it that may lead to soil contamination if dumped in landfills or may cause water pollution if thrown into water bodies. Such waste is even more hazardous to burn as the quality of air has not been very good in India and more importantly, burning chemical waste like these will pollute the air enough to cause serious respiratory problems.

Our environment is already going through Global Warming, Ozone Depletion, and all other kinds of toxic pollutants contaminating the air, water, and soil. The last thing we need is to add the burden of air acidification or destruction of aquatic lives by mishandling the battery waste. The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) did come up with an idea of ‘Recycling’ the waste as the only possible way from letting the chemicals enter into the atmosphere, the aquatic ecosystem, or the lands. The rules were drafted keeping in mind the protection of the environment as well as of those living in it as the main goal that has to be achieved through the management of waste batteries.

Objectives of the Act

The Batteries (Management and Handling) Rules, 2001 came with a set of objectives that provided an overview of the plans of the Government for the execution of these rules and how they will help us to not only handle the used up battery waste efficiently but also no harm will come to the environment. The objectives are as follows:

As the name suggests, the initial objective behind the Act or the rules is proper management of discarded batteries that are thrown when not in use. The Rules have specifically focused on Lead-Acid Batteries which are more commonly used among the people and ensures the safe disposal of such batteries so that they further do not cause any harm. The problem with lead-acid batteries is that they contain huge amounts of sulphuric acid and a toxic metal like lead which is highly corrosive. It can have adverse effects on humans and other living organisms like brain and kidney damage, impaired hearing, and breathing problems if they are exposed to such chemicals. The disposal of batteries is a difficult task as it cannot be burned or incinerated because the chemicals might pollute the air quality creating a photochemical smog. If released into water bodies, heavy metals like lead and mercury can cause a potential threat to aquatic life. The batteries have been dumped in landfills for many years and after careful observation, the consequences of dumping chemical waste can be seen. The land has become barren and toxic, incapable of supporting any kind of plant life or vegetation. Moreover, the chemicals sweep down to the groundwater levels making the groundwater unfit for drinking as it will contain high levels of lead, mercury, and lithium that can cause severe problems even death.

The second objective is to keep a proper record of the sale and import of these lead-acid batteries only to control their production and accordingly plan the disposal for these batteries. Keeping a track is important to gather enough resources that would be required for the disposal of battery waste. Also, if this record is not accurate and a part of the sale goes missing, the disposal of the waste of that part of the consumers will then become nearly impossible to handle.

To use an environment-friendly method for disposal of lead-acid batteries. The Government came up with the idea of recycling the waste batteries so that they can be used again and do not have to be led into the environment. Recycling of batteries is not an easy process. It takes a lot of effort and time for the companies to make use of the waste batteries and also the money involved in this process can leave a dent in the economy of a nation. Yet these measures have to be taken to safeguard the people from the harmful effects of this waste.

Main provisions

Management and handling of Lead-Acid Battery Waste is a tough job that requires a huge team consisting of a manufacturer, an importer, re-conditioner, assembler, dealer, recycler, auctioneer, consumer and bulk consumers. With a huge team comes huge responsibilities that each member is expected to fulfill. This means that every one of these members has certain duties assigned to them and tasks that they have been entrusted to complete by their idea of expertise. The provisions laid down for waste management are incomplete without the involvement of all these people however, knowing each of their duties is not necessary. Mentioned below are only the main provisions of the Batteries (Management and Handling) Rules, 2001 focused on giving a general idea of the Act:

The Rules have made it mandatory for the consumers to return the batteries that have been used up. The responsibility of collection is given to the manufacturers, assemblers, re-conditioners, and importers. They also have to ensure the onward transportation of these collected batteries to the recyclers who are registered with the Ministry of Environment and Forests.

The recyclers should have environmental sound technology for processing and recycling the lead-acid batteries. This technology is tested with the Ministry of Environment and Forests, and then accordingly the recyclers are registered officially. This processing is expected to result in cutting down the lead emissions in the atmosphere that are caused due to backyard smelting of these batteries and also to reduce the discharge of acid into open grounds or sewers.

Manufacturers are required to set up the collection centers either individually or jointly, to collect the used batteries from the consumers. They should keep a record of a collection of batteries and also if possible, classify them into types.

Batteries that are sold to the bulk consumers like Centre, State, Road Transport undertakings, and Equipment manufacturers for example- automobile manufacturers have been excluded from the obligation of collection of batteries. Also, the bulk consumers and even the auctioneers could auction the used batteries to registered recyclers under MoEF while the small scale manufacturers are given the liberty to procure recycled lead from these registered recyclers for further manufacture.

Dealers are also assigned the duty to collect the used batteries as per the schedule of the sold ones and auction them in favor of the registered recyclers. They also have to provide sufficient discount to the consumer for the used battery. Also, the classification of batteries into similar types has to be done by them. Lastly, they also file the applications for registration.

All the Manufacturers, Assemblers, Re-Conditioners, Importers, Auctioneers, Recyclers, and Bulk Consumers have to submit half-yearly returns to the State Pollution Control Boards who are designated as the Prescribed Authority. The forms regarding the same have been designed to enable easy verification of all the responsibilities that the above persons have under the Rules.

The Ministry has prescribed a collection schedule to provide a gradual enhancement in the collection of the used batteries to achieve a level of 90 percent collection from the third year. The batteries have also been categorized for similar collection.

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Reforms

The Rules of Battery Waste Management, 2001 did prove to be effective and useful in protecting the environment from the hazardous chemicals that the waste produced. However, today the risks have increased in number with more and more use of batteries in day to day equipment like phones, laptops, alarm clocks, watches, etc. The year 2020 is a digitalized era where every person is technology driven and so the use of batteries among people is also rising. This calls for some changes to be made in the Rules that were notified in the year 2001. To strengthen the ecosystem for management and handling of disposal of batteries all over India and ensuring the safety of the people, the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) published a draft of Battery Waste Management Rules, 2020 on February 20, 2020, which is supposed to supersede Batteries (Management and Handling) Rules, 2001. The Provisions are almost the same; they have just been improved a little to meet the present status of battery waste disposal.

The New Rules have brought under the purview both the Primary (non-rechargeable) and secondary (chargeable) types of cells and not just focused on Lead-acid batteries.

With the advancement in technology, now batteries can be tracked through online records and data management to control the sale and collection of batteries all over the country. This record will also ensure a formalized recycling of batteries.

It lays down the responsibilities of the manufacturers, dealers, assemblers, auctioneers, recyclers, importers, re-conditioners, consumers and bulk consumers regarding the collection, processing, and sale of the batteries with a more advanced method.

The new rules make sure that the recycling of the batteries is done safely by taking effective control measures and also it seems that the spare parts can be brought to some use.

The Ministry has taken the task of setting up the collection centers on itself, either individually or jointly at various places for collecting batteries from consumers and dealers. New arrangements have been proposed for the safe transportation of the old batteries from the collection centers to the authorized recycler. Moreover, manufacturers will also need to file an annual record of their sales and buyback to the State Board by December 31 of every year.

Suggestions

To use the 3 R’s as much as possible- even though recycling is the best way for safe disposal of the used battery waste, the other two components that are REDUCE and RECHARGE can also prove to be effective in handling the battery waste. The main goal is protecting the environment and living beings from hazardous substances that come out of this waste. Thus, reducing and limiting the use of batteries to only important electrical devices and technology can be a good way to lessen the burden of disposal. Using Rechargeable batteries is another possible way to cut down the expenses of recycling.

Importance of Awareness- increasing awareness among the people about the harmful impacts of waste batteries is the most crucial step towards managing Battery waste disposal. The people have to know that blindly using and disposing of the batteries will be their loss in the coming future. The Government alone cannot handle all the disposal and management of e-waste like batteries. The people need to support and work with the government for safe disposal of this waste because by doing so they are safeguarding the future interests of themselves as well as the environment.

Conclusion

Even after the introduction of a new draft of Rules set by the needs of the present era, the Batteries (Management and Handling) Rules, 2001 was quite successful in its own time. Batteries are just one thing out of so many that are a threat to our environment and us. We cannot ignore the polluted air that we encounter while stepping out of our homes, or the barren lands that once held huge trees in its soil or even the beautiful, clean lakes and rivers that we have in our cities, all of this is slowly getting destroyed at the hands of the humans themselves because they are not ready to look at the bigger picture in front of their own selfish needs. However, there is still hope to protect whatever is left of the environment and so I believe that we should make as many people aware of the current environmental situations as possible.

References

https://teamleasecompliance.com/resources/acts/article/22/environment-protection-act-1986-batteries-management-and-handling-rule/

https://www.ecomena.org/managing-lead-acid-batteries/

www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/content/453217/batteries-management-and-handling-rules-2001/

https://www.ecolex.org/details/legislation/batteries-management-and-handling-rules-2001-lex-faoc040627/

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Fire

Charizard, male, lv 51, Mild, Solar Power

Torchic, male, lv 1, Modest, Speed Boost, Outstanding Potential

Simisear, male, lv 33, Modest, Gluttony, pokérus

Magmortar, named Volcano, male, lv 31, Naive, Flame Body

Fletchling, beast ball, female, lv 1, Modest, Big Pecks

Flareon, male, lv 20, Brave, Flash Fire

Flareon, male, lv 1, Lax, Flash Fire

Growlithe, male, lv 1, Bold, Flash Fire, knows Morning Sun, Burn Up, Outstanding Potential

Growlithe, female, lv 1, Bold, Intimidate, knows Flare Blitz

Growlithe, Korean, male, lv 1, Adamant, Intimidate, knows Burn Up, Morning Sun, Close Combat, Outstanding Potential

Vulpix, Kanto, female, lv 1, Rash, Flash Fire

Ninetales, Japanese, Kanto, female, lv 25, Lax, Flash Fire

Slugma, male, lv 1, Brave, Magma Armor

Litleo, female, lv 6, Bashful, Rivalry

Fennekin, male, lv 1, Timid, Magician, knows Hypnosis, Magic Coat, Wish, Heat Wave, Outstanding Potential (x3)

Water

Horsea, Japanese, Lax, Sniper, knows Dragon Breath

Simipour, female, lv 57, Brave, Gluttony

Froakie, Japanese, male, lv 1, Timid, Protean

Milotic, Japanese, male, lv 1, Serious, Marvel Scale, Outstanding Potential

Whiscash, male, lv 31, Impish, Hydration

Pyukumuku, Chinese, female, lv 50, Calm, Innards Out

Oshawott, Korean, male, lv 1, Quiet, Torrent, knows Brine, Outstanding Potential

Floatzel, male, lv 34, Rash, Swift Swim

Barboach, female, lv 1, Careful, Anticipation, Outstanding Potential

Seel, male, lv 1, Calm, Thick Fat, Outstanding Potential

Ducklett, female, lv 1, Timid, Keen Eye, Outstanding Potential

Clauncher, male, lv 1, Lonely, Mega Launcher, Outstanding Potential

Starmie, lv 100, Gentle, Natural Cure, from Unova

Grass

Rowlet, Japanese, male, lv 1, Gentle, Overgrow, knows Sucker Punch

Dartrix, named Raquel, female, lv 19, Hardy, Overgrow

Bulbasaur, male, lv 1, Calm, Chlorophyll, knows Giga Drain, Outstanding Potential

Chikorita, male, lv 1, Calm, Overgrow

Bayleef, male, lv 21, Docile, Overgrow

Serperior, male, lv 49, Relaxed, Overgrow

Leafeon, male, lv 11, Naughty, Leaf Guard

Bounsweet, female, lv 1, Jolly, Oblivious, knows Play Rough

Bounsweet, love ball, Japanese, female, lv 1, Adamant, Oblivious, knows Play Rough

Seedot, Japanese, female, lv 2, Relaxed, Chlorophyll

Snover, male, lv 19, Modest, Snow Warning

Bellsprout, female, lv 16, Calm, Chlorophyll

Foongus, male, lv 1, Careful, Effect Spore, Outstanding Potential (x2)

Amoongus, male, lv 48, Bold, Effect Spore

Amoongus, male, lv 50, Mild, Effect Spore

Amoongus, male, lv 49, Hasty, Effect Spore

Roserade, male, lv 33, Brave, Poison Point, knows Leaf Storm, pokérus

Roserade, male, lv 27, Modest, Natural Cure

Gogoat, male, named Yagi, lv 86, Relaxed, Sap Sipper

Bug

Shuckle, Japanese, male, lv 1, Bold, Gluttony, knows Knock Off

Kricketot, female, lv 1, Impish, Shed Skin

Dustox, Japanese, female, lv 13, Docile, Shield Dust

Wormadam, female, lv 21, Naughty, Anticipation

Mothim, male, lv 22, Modest, Swarm

Ninjask, male, lv 20, Docile, Speed Boost

Shedinja, lv 20, Docile, Wonder Guard

Beedrill, male, lv 17, Bashful, Swarm

Wimpod, beast ball, female, lv 1, Timid, Wimp Out, knows Spikes, Wide Guard, and Aqua Jet

Beautifly, named Isabella, female, lv 19, Mild, Swarm

Weedle, sport ball, female, Docile, Shield Dust

Kakuna, sport ball, female, lv 14, Quiet, Shed Skin

Vespiquen, named Queenie, female, lv 40, Hardy, Pressure

Vivillon, Garden, female, lv 21, Rash, Shield Dust

Electric

Pichu, male, lv 1, Relaxed, Static, knows Thunder Punch, Outstanding Potential

Jolteon, Japanese, male, lv 49, Brave, Volt Absorb

Emolga, female, lv 51, Bashful, Static

Electrike, male, lv 1, Timid, Lightning Rod, knows Flame Burst, Discharge, Electro Ball, and Switcheroo

Helioptile, female, lv 33, Impish, Sand Veil

Pachirisu, female, lv 30, Relaxed, Run Away

Plusle, male, lv 10, Timid, Plus

Electivire, male, lv 30, Hardy, Motor Drive

Magnezone, named DONNI, lv 37, lv 37, Calm, Sturdy

Flaaffy, male, lv 15, Careful, Static

Fighting

Meditite, female, lv 1, Jolly, Pure Power

Mienfoo, male, lv 15, Lax, Inner Focus

Hitmontop, male, lv 21, Jolly, Intimidate

Crabominable, named Brawly, male, lv 43, Docile, Iron Fist

Ice

Froslass, French, female, lv 41, Sassy, Snow Cloak

Vulpix, female, lv 1, Sassy, Snow Cloak, knows Freeze Dry, Moonblast

Glaceon, male, lv 26, Adamant, Snow Cloak

Glaceon, male, lv 17, Docile, Snow Cloak

Spheal, male, lv 1, Bold, Thick Fat

Swinub, male, lv 1, Hasty, Oblivious, knows Icicle Spear, Fissure

Jynx, female, lv 39, Careful, Oblivious

Piloswine, Japanese, male, lv 36, Jolly, Oblivious

Snorunt, Japanese, female, lv 20, Gentle, Ice Body

Vanillite, named Fat Free, male, lv 1, Modest, Ice Body, Outstanding Potential

Psychic

Mr. Mime, Japanese, male, lv 1, Modest, Filter, pokérus

Munna, male, lv 1, Bold, Forewarn

Sigilyph, female, lv 31, Rash, Magic Guard, pokérus

Grumpig, female, lv 34, Quirky, Own Tempo

Espeon, male, lv 33, Lonely, Synchronize

Normal

Zangoose, female, lv 8, Lax, Toxic Boost

Noctowl, female, lv 48, Calm, Keen Eye

Starly, female, lv 1, Naughty, Keen Eye

Wigglytuff, female, lv 57, Gentle, Cute Charm

Sentret, Japanese, male, lv 1,, Quiet, Keen Eye

Porygon2, lv 30, Impish, Download

Rufflet, named Alfred, male, lv 42, Modest, Sheer Force

Bouffalant, female, lv 31, Mild, Sap Sipper

Deerling, Summer, Outstanding Potential

Darin, male, lv 1, Docile, Serene Grace

Louise, female, lv 1, Naive, Sap Sipper

Deerling Spring, Outstanding Potential

Olivia, female, lv 1, Mild, Sap Sipper

Clint, male, lv 1, Bold, Sap Sipper

Ditto, lv 28, Naive, Limber

Ditto, lv 49, Bold, Limber

Chansey, female, lv 35, Jolly, Serene Grace

Porygon, lv 1, Naughty, Trace

Starly, female, lv 1, Adamant, Keen Eye

Bunnelby, male, lv 2, Hardy, Pickup

Doduo, male, lv 26, Lonely, Tangled Feet, from the good ol’ days of Kanto

Stufful, named Teddy, female, lv 20, Bashful, Klutz

Eevee, female, lv 1, Lonely, Run Away

Eevee, love ball, Japanese, male, lv 21, Timid, Anticipation, knows Yawn, Stored Power, Wish, Curse

Lickitung, female, lv 1, Adamant, Own Tempo, Outstanding Potential

Furfrou, female, lv 1, Mild, Fur Coat, Outstanding Potential

Dunsparce, female, lv 1, Bashful, Run Away, Outstanding Potential

Poison

Croagunk, female, lv 14, Careful, Anticipation

Toxicroak, male, lv 37, Bashful, Dry Skin

Salandit, female, Japanese, lv 1, Timid, Corrosion

Salandit, female, lv 1, Adamant, Corrosion

Stunky, male, lv 21, Timid, Aftermath

Nidoqueen, female, lv 36, Calm, Poison Point

Nidoking, male, lv 30, Naughty, Poison Point

Seviper, male, lv 1, Naughty, Shed Skin, Outstanding Potential

Crobat, male, lv 61, Mild, Inner Focus

Ground/Rock

Gliscor, Japanese, male, lv 13, Lax, Sand Veil

Sandile, male, lv 1, Laz, Moxie, knows Fire Fang

Minior, Light Blue, Lure ball, Adamant, Shields Down

Minior, Japanese, Purple, Hardy, Shields Down

Cubone, male, lv 1, Relaxed, Battle Armor, Outstanding Potential

Graveler, Alolan, male, lv 32, Hardy, Magnet Pull

Hippopotas, male, lv 17, Gntle, Sand Stream

Gigalith, male, lv 43, Adamant, Sand Stream

Golem, Kanto, male, lv 45, Sassy, Rock Head

Probopass, male, lv 14, Mild, Magnet Pull

Excadrill, male, lv 30, Lonely, Sand Force

Stunfisk, male, lv 30, Bold, Limber

Bastiodon, male, lv 30, Adamant, Sturdy

Onix, male, lv 1, Quiet, Rock Head, Outstanding Potential

Ghost

Duskull, male, lv 1, Adamant, Levitate

Dusknoir, female, lv 37, Jolly, Pressure

Gengar, master ball, male, lv 30, Impish, Cursed Body

Fairy

Sylveon, named Fwish, male, lv 50, Hasty, Cute Charm

Sylveon, French, male, lv 48, Adamant, Cute Charm

Cleffa, female, lv 27, Naughty, Magic Guard

Florges, red, female, lv 43, Modest, Symbiosis

Dark

Mightyena, female, lv 23, Calm, Quick Feet

Umbreon, female, lv 26, Sassy, Synchronize

Zoroark, male, lv 48, Serious, Illusion

Pangoro, female, lv 32, Impish, Iron Fist

Steel

Honedge, German, male, lv 1, Rash, No Guard, Outstanding Potential, knows Destiny Bond and Shadow Sneak

Legendaries/UB

Suicune, Japanese, lv 73, Modest, Pressure

Entei, master ball, lv 100, Mild, Pressure, from Kanto

Raikou, Japanese, lv 76, Relaxed, Pressure

Tapu Koko, Japanese, lv 60, Quirky, Electric Surge, pokérus

Regirock, Japanese, lv 51, Hasty, Clear Body

Registeel, lv 65, Lax, Clear Body

Ho-Oh, Japanese, lv 70, Adamant, Pressure

Kartana, named Schwert, lv 60, Rash, Beast Boost

Buzzwole, lv 65, Timid, Beast Boost

Pheromosa, lv 60, Lonely, Beast Boost

Tapu Lele, Japanese, lv 60, Lonely, Psychic Surge

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In Other Waters review

Developer: Jump Over the Age

Publisher: Fellow Traveller

Platform: Reviewed on Switch

Availability: Out now on Switch and PC

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That ritual of scanning and setting a course may sound monotonous. During the first of my eight hours with the game, I worried that the cetacean whistles and clicks of the wonderfully tuned interface might begin to grate, that repetition might tempt me to skim past vital pieces of text. That temptation is fiercest when you’re wandering through toxic water, your eye flicking between a dwindling O2 reserve on the left and the leisurely unfolding commentary on the right. But these oppressive regions are manageable enough once your panic is cooled – your suit can metabolise scraps of organic matter for oxygen and power, and the only penalty for running out is being recovered by drone and obliged to start that region over.

After a while, you realise what the game is asking of you: not just curiosity but reflection and a certain method, a willingness to sample this ocean one bit at a time, as a considerate scientist would. You also realise that what you’re doing when you move and scan is weaving two lifeforms together – a xenobiologist, Dr Ellery Vas, who is searching these undiscovered waters for somebody she once knew, and the strange AI unit she finds abandoned on a reef.

Ellery can’t operate the suit herself: rather, she sets broad objectives, region by region, leaving it up to you how you achieve them and what you investigate along the way. Her agency in the field consists of remarking on and writing up the creatures and things you find. You can’t communicate with her beyond responding “yes” or “no” to very infrequent questions, but the act of exploration constitutes a dialogue, a tidal back-and-forth between an AI’s visualisations and a human’s powers of description and analysis.

That player-enacted symbiosis facilitates a well-paced, exposition-lite story about coexisting with nonhuman life, against the ravages of interplanetary capitalism. Ellery is an employee of Baikal, a corporation that strips whole worlds of resources. Working for this entity is the price she pays for escaping an Earth whose seas have been sterilised by climate change. She’s a survivor, then, but she is still a scientist, and Gliese 667Cc – an actual, potentially habitable exoplanet, previously visited by the Alien vs Predator franchise – is everything Earth has lost. You’ll encounter scores of bewitching lifeforms, collecting bits of plant frond or shell with a tool that resembles a shutter-operated camera, and storing them at the laboratory you uncover early in the game.

The lab itself – which serves as a chapter-breaking hub – is a delightful specimen, its floors stacked like slides under a microscope. Here, you can analyse samples you’ve collected to fill out a database, Ellery’s initial observations and speculations blooming into marvellously nerdy accounts of predation and reproduction. The game’s lead designer and writer Gareth Damian Martin is a florid stylist, but he and his co-writers strike a balance in the game between rhapsody and clinical precision. Gather enough data and you’ll unlock a sketch of the creature, a postcard to the AI from Ellery’s world.

The creatures are like nothing else you’ll find in a game, their eerieness only amplified by the knowledge that they are mournful homages to organisms whose habitats we are destroying. I’ll try not to spoil them too much, but we’re a long way from videogame staples like sharks. There’s a huge emphasis on interdependence: every organism is the way it is thanks to its interactions with another, be it turning a much larger organism into a habitat, or cultivating bacteria for food. Some organisms are in fact several, entwined together like Ellery and the AI.

Fascinating revelations, indeed, but as a mechanic the taxonomy system feels a bit wayward. Progress through the game is broadly defined by a database completion percentage, visible on your save file. Maxing a percentage is the hallmark of a more ruthless, acquisitive fantasy than In Other Waters – it clashes with the pliant tone of Ellery’s notes, which often end with yet more questions. Accepting the planet’s mysteries rather than trying to unravel every last one is part of the game’s ecological message, and as such, that touch of completionism seems out of place.

It’s a tiny quibble, though, forgotten the second you venture back out into the water. The game’s colour palette is astonishing, creating an atmosphere most open world blockbusters can only dream of. Beyond that opening wash of radioactive turquoise and sherbet yellow, you can expect glaring stews of red and green, and sunken recesses where the map is a tracery of bone emerging from midnight blue. Amplifying the mood is Amos Roddy’s meditative electronic score, which is elegantly attuned to the unfolding plot. Some of the major dramatic beats are tethered to melodies, played out note by note as you click between lines.

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It might seem annoying that you can’t “escape” In Other Waters’ interface and explore the naturalistic three-dimensional landscape hinted at by Ellery’s sketches – certainly, I’d love to see a 3D interpretation of one particular colonial lifeform – but that’s missing the point. The AI’s perspective is reality, its collaboration with Ellery producing a world. That concept of reality as a co-production, fashioned by on-going interaction and acceptance, is anathema to the version offered by Baikal, which cynically divides existence into humans and the things we use. It’s a concept In Other Waters makes you live, scan by scan, waypoint by waypoint, as you contemplate an ocean that is every bit as unreal and fragile as our own.

Disclaimer: In Other Waters creator Gareth Damian Martin is a former Eurogamer contributor.

from EnterGamingXP https://entergamingxp.com/2020/04/in-other-waters-review-an-ocean-sanctuary-for-the-meditative-explorer-%e2%80%a2-eurogamer-net/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-other-waters-review-an-ocean-sanctuary-for-the-meditative-explorer-%25e2%2580%25a2-eurogamer-net

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