>'Claiming personhood is perhaps the most obvious strategy at hand within a humanist system that sees the human species as the supreme form of being. Yet the category has always been composed of hierarchies and categories both internal and external to the concept, which have failed humans and no humans alike.' - Elvia Wilk [[Wilk, Elvia (2022) Death By Landscape]] > 'Tsing points out how bizarre it is that we have long assumed plants are not social beings - and that when we try to imagine them as such, it is through anthropomorphism. Carnivorous murderers, or kindly creatures transmitting nature's wisdom. Either way, the extent to which the plant is social depends on the extent to which the plant can socialize on our terms, with us. Who speaks for the plants? Who should get to speak for plants? Scientists? Filmmakers? Novelists?' - Elvia Wilk [[Personhood]] @Anna Tsing 'Yet the desire for a machine to speak like a person is just the same old desire that reifies the way people communicate, and insists that other beings learn to do it our way.' - Elvia Wilk [[Personhood]] ## Sources: - [[Wilk, Elvia (2022) Death By Landscape]]