Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:49:50 +0100
Subject: letting be bees -- (just ) to be bees (& nothing be-sides)
From: michaelP <michael-AT-sandwich-de-sign.co.uk>


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In a report in the Guardian today it was said that another epidemic (from
the Varroa mites) is hitting the honeybees, one that could decimate the
British (honeybee) population. The report, after describing how commercial
honey production and the activities of the many bee-hobyists would be
affected by the "plague" of mites, goes on to reveal the main comportment
towards the bees, the main casting of the being of bees:

"The economic and environmental value of bees is incalculable."
[Richard Jones of the International Bee Research Association]

I think, to the contrary, that from this comportment, the value of bees is
perfectly calculable (even in its incalculability). That they (and what we
often call 'the natural world') are seen as valued, as caught in the
calculating embrace of humans and what they are for humans, is, whether for
a more obvious profiteering, or in the name of conservation and recreation,
just another way in which we do not seem to be able to let the bees be the
bees that they be.

Is it at all possible for us to let the bees (and the mites) be and remain
human? Can we simply leave them alone without our interest, valuing,
exploitation, preservation, etc (all appearances of the technological
will-to-power, the gestell)?

regards

michaelBee 

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"The economic and environmental value of bees is incalculable."
[Richard Jones of the International Bee Research Association]