Kathy Reid<p>Excellent Sunday afternoon read from Professor <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@drmichaellevin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>drmichaellevin</span></a></span> for Noema Magazine that takes a look at the metaphors we use to distinguish between organic and non-organic beings and challenges some of the assumptions around what we consider to be machines and/or living things. </p><p>Very much in the style of Donna Haraway, he advocates at once for <a href="https://aus.social/tags/pragmatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pragmatism</span></a>, for empirically testing the methods we use for interrogating systems that imbricate the organic and the machine and to keep an open mind when categorising which is which. </p><p>For fans of Douglas Hofstadter, <a href="https://aus.social/tags/cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cybernetics</span></a>, <a href="https://aus.social/tags/systems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>systems</span></a> and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ConsequentialCategories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConsequentialCategories</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://www.noemamag.com/living-things-are-not-machines-also-they-totally-are/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">noemamag.com/living-things-are</span><span class="invisible">-not-machines-also-they-totally-are/</span></a></p>