Hot Rod Biology

Taxonomy first came up a couple of weeks back in regard to my 100 images assignment, 'Hot Rod Biology' [see post] . . . taxonomy as a similarity between the Hot Rod mag and the Biology text book.

I hadn't thought about this much more until the reading into borders/borderlands [previous post] got me thinking about how we create artificial boundaries ñ how we define and classify what's appropriate . . . authenticated . . .
[I had actually touched on this in the questions for the Appropriation chapter in the Poyner book, but I didn't really have much clarity/direction back then!]

I wrote the following in my workbook . . .

1. Laguages exist in continual states of hybridity [including visual languages]
2. We see [our own] language as integral to our identity
3. We therefore attempt to define and classify our language in order to understand our identity as seperate to others [we are special]
4. STATEMENT 3 EXISTS IN CONFLICT WITH THE INITIAL STATEMENT 1

Then, a bit later, I wrote . . .

Dwelling in borderlands means inevitable flux, shift, hybridity . . . taxonomy will fail ñ it has a shelf life. Taxonomy is an important tool of the status quo ñ the dominant narrative ñ so when taxonomy does fail, those at the border [the hybrids] will be persecuted. Their ways, means, and selves will be invalidated, labelled 'unauthentic', and possibly 'dangerous' [the hybrid threatens the dominant narrative]. Yet they are the way forward . . . this is evolution.