User:Aitantv/Siegried Zielinski (2006) Deep Time of the Media

Bioluminescence

• "the ability of certain plants and animnals independent of all sources of artificial and natural light in the vicinity to emit short flashes of light or to glow over a longer period of time without any increase in the organism's temperature." (p 13)
• George Batatille on the productivity mania of capitalism in contrast to nature: "The Sun's rays, which we are, ultimatley find nature and the meaning of the sun again: it has to expend itself, lose itself without calculating the costs. A living system either grows, or it expends itself for no reason."