2 of 7 - A Life of Science: Lynn Margulis Opens the Gaian Era

Dear Earthlings:

two more snapshots from the Lynn Margulis conference this week.  How many angles to Gaia theory!  Each discipline has something to gain from it.  Each discourse can integrate it beneficially. 

Bruce Clarke, professor of English at Texas Tech, claims he became convinced of Gaia theory when he figured that "Gaia is a metabiotic system," not an organism in the conventional sense.  "Gaia theory" he concludes, "is Systems Theory."  That's how the new scientific paradigm gets integrated in new fields of study in the humanities.

Mary Catherine Bateson speaks of influences.  Which direction?  Paradigm shift happens when a person responds to the age based on what the age demands.  So influences go in both directions.  Collaboration vs competition.  There is a cultural need to value collaboration.  Science can use collaboration to account for what isn't explained by competition.  The influence goes from a cultural to a natural dimension, and vice versa.  Interpretations is what science and culture are made of.  As a listener, yours truly notices what an admirable group of people has gathered to celebrate Lynn Margulis.  Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead, in Mary Catherine's family, are two of the most remarkable American thinkers! 

Dear Earthlings:

Education is the heart of democracy.  And that includes education to love.  It comes in many forms.  Including learning about Lynn Margulis, the role of collaboration in evolution, and Gaia theory. 

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Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD

Gilf Gaia Extraordinaire

Author of Gaia, Eros, and many other books about love
Professor of Humanities

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

   

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Press Release: Senior UPRM Faculty Awarded Humanities Fellowship at U Conn, 2012-13

Press Release: Senior UPRM Faculty Awarded Humanities Fellowship at U Conn, 2012-13
Contact: Serena Anderlini, 787 538 1680

Dear Office of the Press:

It is a pleasure to release the news that the University of Connecticut notified me this week of the offer of a research award of major significance in the humanities, a one-year Fellowship at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, UCHI.  The Institute is one of the few of its kind in the US system, with fellowship awards comparable to the National Humanities Center in North Carolina and the Guggenheim Foundation in New York City. 

Here is the project's basic information: 

Title: Amorous Visions: Fluid Sexual Moments in Italian Cinema

Anna and Giulia in The Conformist, 1970

Summary: This study articulates a new interpretation of pivotal scenes in selected classics of Italian cinema based on the cultural constructs of “amorous inclusiveness” and “sexual fluidity” elaborated in recent cultural analyses of human sexual, erotic, and amorous behavior (Ryan and Jetha 2010, Diamond 2009). These classics include Pasolini’s Teorema (1968), where a mysterious guest awakens the erotic libido of all members in a nuclear family, and Bertolucci's The Conformist (1970), where a charming hostess similarly awakens both members of a newlywed couple. Based on these new interpretive paradigms, these scenes acquire a new meaning that discloses the bisexual and polyamorous content therein. This enables more positive and complete understandings of the films as projects that artistically express love for love, or erotophilia. As an experienced scholar who charted new research fields that study love as the art of crossing beyond sexual divides and exclusivity (BiTopia, 2011), I am uniquely prepared to articulate these interpretations.

I am a senior faculty in the Department of Humanities with many research achievements to my credit, including books that have received prizes and charted new fields of knowledge.  I recognize UPRM as an institution where the originality of my research has been honored and nurtured.  This external funding award is a deserved reward for the many years of internal funding from which my works have benefited. 

I imagine you'd like to publicize the happy news in a online piece.  That would be wonderful!  I'd be happy to send more information and am available to interview.  Please feel free to contact me.  I look forward to hearing from you.  Please let me know if I can answer any questions. 

Namaste,

Namaste,
 

Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD

Gilf Gaia Extraordinaire

Author of Gaia, Eros, and many other books about love
Professor of Humanities

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

   

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1 of 7 - A Life of Science: Lynn Margulis Opens the Gaian Era

Dear Earthlings:

"A three-day symposium, "Celebrating a Life of Science: In Memory of Lynn Margulis," was held [on] March 23-25th, at the University of Massachusetts, where Margulis taught evolutionary science for decades," opens Victoria N. Alexander on Digital Journal.

Yours truly was blessed with being present at this momentous gathering of the minds.  From microscope to telescope, from cell to cosmos, Gaia is the overarching theory of the new era.  Lynn Margulis celebrated for ushering the new wisdom.  

Yours truly is happy to share snapshots of the speakers, with brief comments about their significance.

Jennifer Margulis shares about her mother's birth in a hospital, something new in 1938, and of her suffering episiotomies at giving birth to her first three kids.  It is now known that these genital cuts help physicians more than babies or women.  Lynn studied the problem, and when Jennifer came along, she refused.  The doctor approached scissors in had, and she got up from the delivery bed to stop him from using them.  Thank you Lynn!  The episiotomy I suffered ruined my sexual life for ten years and kept me from wanting more kinds.  Somebody had to start.  Thanks to you, Lynn, now many women can choose water and squatting positions when giving birth to a baby. 

William Irwin Thompson, of Lindisfarne, speaks of the cultural implications of Lynn Margulis's science of symbiosis: collaboration is the overarching narrative of evolution, competition is a footnote.  He's a independent philosopher known for his intuitive thinking.  Here are the big questions: What does this mean for us humans?  Are we going to go along with "nature" or insist on being different?  

Dear Earthlings:

Education is the heart of democracy.  And that includes education to love.  It comes in many forms.  Including learning about Lynn Margulis, the role of collaboration in evolution, and Gaia theory. 

Did you enjoy the post?  Let us know!  Yours truly appreciates your attention.  The comments box is open.

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Namaste,
 

Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD

Gilf Gaia Extraordinaire

Author of Gaia, Eros, and many other books about love
Professor of Humanities

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

   

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7 of 8 - Snippetts of Eros - Translation as Love, Love as Translation

Dear Earthlings:

The year of wonders is what 2012 is supposed to be.  Yours truly offers snippets of her favorite books.  All on yesterday's forbidden themes.  Let's see if their mysteries are revealed.

Eros is a story that staved the loneliness of her first years in the Caribbean, when she was missing her former Matrias,  California and Italy.  

What is language?  What is translation?  What makes one cross the language lines, become a transcultural person?  What's the measure of love in this inclusive discourse?  How does language define how we understand the world?  Imagine its transformation?  Language makes people fall in love from time immemorial.  Yet the very question has become a taboo.  Why?  Language is knowledge, knowledge love.  Isn't that a win-win?  More languages, more ways to love.  

Here are yours truly's reflections back in 2007.  Eros: A Journey of Multiple Loves, has the full story. 

"I was determined to push French and Italian out of my inner landscape.  The combat of one subconscious against the others was driving me crazy.  Blocking the music of my first native language out of my mind eased the pain of losing my baby.  My French lover exited with the second.  I was striving for the inversion that would allow American English to envelop these other languages and make their rhythms accessible.  It was torture for my inner space. English was never spoken at home . . .It was the colonizer's language, and making it my own would help me reconquer my soul.  A colonizer brings women the scent of emancipation  . . . and [as a teenager] I used to spend time  . . . deciphering lyrics [from the Beatles and Rolling Stones]" (63).

The narrative continues as Gaia becomes a translator and facilitator across cultures and languages.  Oh blessed be! 

Dear Earthlings:

Education is the heart of democracy.  And that includes education to love.  It comes in many forms.  Including learning about Eros and journeys of multiple loves.

Eros: A Journey of Multiple Loves was a Lambda Finalist in 2007.  It is now being considered for translation in to Spanish by a press in Madrid.  Access to this memoir would be a great gift to Spanish speakers across the globe.  If you agree, leave a comment and we will let the publisher know.  Gracias!  

Did you enjoy the post?  Let us know!  Yours truly appreciates your attention.  The comments box is open.

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Namaste,
 

Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD

Gilf Gaia Extraordinaire

Author of Gaia, Eros, and many other books about love
Professor of Humanities

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

   

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