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The western point of view, the dominant materialist worldview, holds that land is the source of ecosystem services, land as property, as capital, as natural resources. Sustainability defined as how we can continue to use and to take. Whereas the indigenous perspective honors land a
Olivia Vagelos • We Are Not the Only "Who"
Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene
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Each of them knows innumerable minute, local truths.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
This is, as I see it, the core characteristic of the Anthropocene: the human psyche has become one of the most powerful forces we know of, but we’re still terribly clumsy novices with it. We can start out with a desire to sell more cotton, and before you know it, an ecosystem has vanished and we’ve got skyrocketing rates of esophageal cancer.
Into the Psychozoic
First there was nothing. Then there was everything.
Then, in a park above a western city after dark, the air is raining messages.
A woman sits on the ground, leaning against a pine. Its bark presses hard against her back, hard as life. Its needles scent the air and a force hums in the heart of the wood. Her ears tune down to the lowest frequencies. T
... See moreThe third world’s remittance economy—which is basically the money sent home by people who have migrated to first-world nations, and which rivals international aid in scope—did not crash during the last financial crisis. In fact in many instances it grew, baffling economists.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
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Alan Watts • The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
So anthropology grounds Asya. At the same time, the novel gestures to the discipline’s troubled past, with its colonial underpinnings and tendency to exploit, extract, and other its subjects.