The situation is even more murky when you look at a species like dogs, who we essentially co-evolved with to domesticate each other. In another sense, grain has shaped humanity to propagate itself. In one sense, humanity has shaped grain to serve us. The village is domesticated, certainly, but so are the forests around it where humans hunt, and possibly clear with fire, so are the places where evolution is shaped by human predation, or by escaped domesticated species (plant and animal).Īnd it is not just the rest of the world that is shaped by domestication, but also humanity.
Within this broader domus complex, the domus is more like a local increase in concentration of domestication, but the the domestication of the landscape extends out far beyond where you might naturally think of as being the boundary of human presence. We don't just produce small, tightly concentrated, domestic units, but we broadly reshape the landscape around us, and have been doing so long before anything recognisable as modern agriculture. Scott talks more broadly about the domus complex as the effect of humanity on the landscape. The “domus” is an assemblage, or concatenation of multiple species and environmentalįeatures – landscape changes, animal pens, houses, butcher shops, blacksmiths, marketplacesĪnd so on – that are put together in varying proportions. It is the origin of "domestication", which can be thought of as the process of taking other species and making them suitable for inclusion in the domus.īecause not enough people write like mathematicians, Scott never really precisely defines what he means by domus in any easy to extract form, but the condensation of it in these notes is pretty good: The term comes from the Latin word meaning home, but can more broadly be used to refer to a freeholding and its surrounding cultivation. Also I can't promise that this post will make sense if you have read them.Īgainst the Grain talks about the idea of a domus. You don't have to read any of these to understand this post (I hope), but they vaguely are defining the cluster of what I'm thinking about right now.
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Plus a lot of general background stuff beyond that.
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How to talk about books you haven't read.Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson.Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences by Bowker and Star.It probably won't quite make sense yet, because it doesn't yet make sense to me. This post is an attempt to gesture vaguely in the sense of the there that may or may not be there. Sometimes you just get a sense that there's a there there, but you're not quite sure what it is yet. NB this is a very working with the garage door up post.
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