Randomness assigns value to everything and everyone it touches by giving each participant equal weight: everything is equally valuable. In this, randomness is inherently political and inherently empowering. Randomness means and makes sure that every thing matters: I matter, you matter, we all matter together. And this ‘mattering’ is an active verb:

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Faced with the possible annihilation of the planet as we know it, certain modes of knowing fall short. Especially insufficient is knowledge that purports humans to be distinct from ecosystems, much less in control of them...A mysticism for the Anthropocene, just like mysticism through the ages, would regard the “object” of knowledge as alive and in... See more