If desire were not seen as “a reserve of truth” but rather as “an artifact that is culturally constructed, modeled by social violence, incentives and rewards, but also by fear of exclusion”?

Immersion is not one-way but rather a type of mutual copenetration, continuous and constant:

A capitalist system requires that, like the natural world, bodies become resources, which requires creating boundaries between individuals.

rooting oneself and learning to become part of the landscape could be seen as a ferocious claim to life.

only a perspective shift in terms of figure and ground can adequately portray the ecological dependencies that have led the world to environmental cataclysm, the interconnectedness that neoliberal capitalism and its pervasive story forms continue to violently deny.

To be aware of having two bodies is to experience a constant toggling between self and world, which can be enlightening but can also bring on a sense of horror. Where does the self begin and end?

the plant’s role in a mystery plot depends on the author’s attitude toward the benevolence—or violence—of the natural world.

The anus is threatening to patriarchal capitalism, though, precisely because it is sexy and reproductive—as long as anal sex is understood as sex and shit is understood as manure from which new life grows. That new life is not, at least in the first stage, human life. The worldview required to uncastrate the anus, to reach toward an “anal utopia,”

What forms of penetration, if any, does love require?