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World-Making, “Mass” Poverty, and the Problem of Scale
Dipesh Chakrabarty
The more humans created a human-dominated world order, an order of life, the more we got rid of most of the wildlife that could have threatened it. And we developed mechanisms for dealing with “natural” disasters, ranging from technology to insurance. The only predators we have left now are viruses, bacteria, and other microbes. In a way, this happened by combining caring with scaling up.
e-flux Journal
Posted: December 17, 2020
Category
Colonialism & Imperialism, Globalization
Subjects
The Enlightenment, Indian Subcontinent, Covid-19, Global South, Postcolonialism, China