Nomadism & global villages

This week's article delt again with the topic of postmodern and altermodern ideas. The article was very similar to the one last week, but has some interesting quotes. Alain Badiou had some very interesting things to say that the author quoted, that I'd like to quote here:

“We must live in our global village, let nature do its work, affirm its natural rights everywhere. For things have nature that must be respected... The market economy, for example, must find its balance, between some unfortunately inevitable millionaires and the unfortunately innumerable poor, just as we should respect the balance between hedgehogs and snails.”

I respect this idea because we often are in our own 'global village' where our cultures and common lingo and dress and thoughts and ideas are the norm and are respected. When we happen upon other global villages or people from ones very different from our own, we often as a society forget to have respect for those 'others' and be open minded about their ideas, beliefs, etc.

I think that's one of the ideas my second piece is about. I'm planning on putting cast insects into cast bowls and filling the insects with rice much like stuffed peppers, and setting a table as if this is dinner, and bringing to light the idea of what is food, what can we eat, what is eaten in other cultures... and would you eat it? I'm very interested in this type of exchange between viewers. I want to glaze most of the insects if not all of them that Eleanor's green glaze so they will be reminiscent of stuffed peppers.

Getting back to the article, there is a section that has an interesting quote:

“175 million people on the planet living in voluntary exile; about 10 million more every year; professional nomadism increasingly commonplace; unprecedented circulation of goods and services; the formation of transnational political entities...”

I find this idea (as I mentioned in a previous post) of nomadism very interesting, and in relation to what is being said here I feel that when we leave our homes to live in new places and grow to encompass ideas and ways from numerous we are in a way becoming cultural nomads- we are voluntary also because we choose to not really fit into a cookie-cutter replica of a person from a specific culture. It reminds me of specific dog breeds, but then there are mixed breeds who do not fit into one specific breed. I feel that since we are all really immigrants from other cultures combined, we are like those mutts and like those voluntary nomads- and I quite enjoy that that is what is happening.