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incompetence of domesticated humans.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Stanford University Press • Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene
Anthropologists use the term ‘ethnogenesis’ for the process by which disparate groups coalesce around a novel group identity, often retrospectively given divine or mythic origins.
Max Adams • The First Kingdom
The colony possesses something; Adam doesn’t know what to call it. Purpose. Will. A kind of awareness—something so different from human intelligence that intelligence thinks it’s nothing.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
“primeval ancestors.”
Sandra Easter • Jung and the Ancestors: Beyond Biography, Mending the Ancestral Web
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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Sargon’s reign, over four thousand years ago, set the archetype of ‘king as father.’ He had himself portrayed as paternalism embodied, the Great Man, an ideal leader who stood above his people and knew what was best for them. In order to do so, Sargon also invented patronage as a business model for the arts, recognising the capacity of culture to e
... See moreJon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
The blackest despair at the heart of them gets pressed to diamond.