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Offers the transcript of an interview with Donna Haraway, professor in the History of Consciousness Dept at the U of California, Santa Cruz, in which she maintains that she often thinks in biological metaphors as a result of her extensive training in molecular, cellular, & developmental biology, & that her ways of working have become more "conscious" over time. She points out the symbiotic relationship that exists between language & the embodiment of it, to argue that language is an "intensely physical process" that draws attention to the complexities of looking at the material world outside of the dualities of nature-culture, mind-body, or symbolic-material. She explains the meaning of the microorganism, Mixotricha paradoxa, which appears in her book, The Cyborg Handbook (1995), noting that it is a boundary creature like the cyborg, primate, or OncoMouse, but, unlike them, is produced by multiple technoscientific relations that extend beyond the laboratory. Her definition of modernity as the "period of the intensified transportation of seeds & genes" is discussed. 6 References. J. Lindroth

Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor explores the German philosopher's response to the intellectual debates sparked by the publication of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species. By examining the abundance of biological metaphors in Nietzsche's writings, Gregory Moore questions his recent reputation as an eminently subversive and (post-) modern thinker, and shows how deeply Nietzsche was immersed in late nineteenth-century debates on evolution, degeneration and race. The first part of the book provides a detailed study and interpretation of Nietzsche's much disputed relationship to Darwinism. Uniquely, Moore also considers the importance of Nietzsche's evolutionary perspective for the development of his moral and aesthetic philosophy. The second part analyzes key themes of Nietzsche's cultural criticism - his attack on the Judaeo-Christian tradition, his diagnosis of the nihilistic crisis afflicting modernity and his anti-Wagnerian polemics - against the background of fin-de-siècle fears about the imminent biological collapse of Western civilization

In modern political communication, one of the main tasks is the formation of a character of a politician aimed at creating a certain image. A metaphor acts as one of the tools of manipulative impact on the audience. The active use of metaphors in political discourse is due to its ability to influence almost every stage of solving problems in the political sphere: understanding the problem situation, searching for solutions to it, evaluating alternatives and choosing an option

This brief article deals with the use of Indonesian words referring to colors for creating metaphorical expressions. All data presented are collected from various sources, such as Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian Standard Dictionary), and added with data obtained from Oxford Advanced Leaner's Dictionary, Indonesian proverb book, encyclopedia, terminology collection book, poetry anthology, song lyrics, and data of the author's own creation as an Indonesian native speaker. Set aside from their literal meanings, the metaphorically used color words are collected and classified into two categories, i.e. achromatic and chromatic colors. Then, their universalities are determined by comparing them with English color metaphors. Finally the existence of specific Indonesian color metaphors are identified by correlating them with extra linguistic factors, such as environment, history, religion, politic and other socio cultural activities. A careful analysis on the data shows that there is nearly no significant difference in metaphorical uses of achromatic colors in English and Indonesian. However, despite universal nuances of chromatic color metaphors, some specific ones emerge due to various external factors, such as environment, education, history, politic, law, religion, literature, and other socio cultural facts that are specifically found and practiced in Indonesia.