Genealogies Seminar

Genealogy - 29th September

Brief Genealogy Principles -

Creative formation of histories from particular perspectives
Multiplicitious and often contradictory
Never about declaring absolute origins
Genealogies are resident –they are one among many
Genealogies are resident – they are one many

Future Geneology Examples :

If we struggle to work a blanker

Then we would create a blanket with sleeves

Future Genealogy

We were asked to work in-groups of 4/5 and then speculate what would happen.

We were given ' Dinosaurs are alive' from this we came up with a lot ideas:

To being with we questioned is they were good or bad dinosaurs? Then followed both paths to what we would do. The one thing we knew for certain was that it would change the world as we know it.

If the dinosaurs where nice then we would have two options: train them or treat the equal.

Treating the equal would mean that they get rights, may even create a NHS inspired service for dinosaurs. They would be given freedom so could go shopping and even get a full body wash (like a spas treatment)

Training them would mean we could have them as pets or the training could be for work, maybe acting instead of buses. This would also help stop global warming as we wouldn't need to use cars.

If the dinosaurs were nasty then that would be that humans would be straight back in the food chain. Much like the myths of dragons we may have to offer sacrifices in oder to preserve humans as a species therefore feeding them people who have committed unspeakable crimes.

Marc Zuckerberg and his wife have said they are to donated billions of dollars to cure diseases in our children life time. The issue with all diseases being cured is that then means the population with enlarge quicker that people die as births will be at a higher rate. Yes this would be amazing but also means that the only way to control the population is man made solutions war etc. If dinosaurs were evil and alive than population would be able to be controlled.

Evil dinosaurs may even want to enslave the human race leading to a human vs dinosaur war.

Obviously this is all completely ridiculous and is not to be taken seriously, as dinosaurs are not going to be resurrected like in Jurassic Park and I do not think the population needs to be control by human eating monsters.

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