Humans Aren't Animals

Throughout the book, Sound Unbound, I kept running into environmental ideas (probably because I was looking for them). I noticed some first in Rhythm Science. For instance, on page 61, he stated that “Identity is about creating an environment where you can make the world act as your own reflection.” I interpreted this to extend beyond djing. Was Dj Spooky doing that on purpose or did it just come out like that? Specifically, in his paper within Sound Unbound entitled “In Through the Out Door: Sampling and the Creative Act”, he talks about how humans try to separate themselves from nature (7). Even with the act of recording sounds, are we trying to further separate ourselves from animals and other natural beings? It seems to me that we are and that DJ Spooky is saying the very same thing. Much of what we do seems to be to try to separate ourselves from them including living in houses and defying the sun and by creating other such truly odd objects.

When he says “to look for anything to stay the same really is to be caught in a time warp of another era, another place when things stood still and didn’t change so much” (18), does he mean that things change and nothing can be done about it?

His Terra Nova video on his website indicates that he is interested in these ideas and that he may have included those references on purpose. Would an analysis of the Terra Nova video with references to texts he wrote concerning sounds work somehow for a final paper? I think that I’d like to do my final paper concerning this topic, but I’m not sure if it’s really there, or if I’m thinking wishfully. Comments? Suggestions?