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Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene
Donna Haraway
We are all lichens.
— Scott Gilbert, “We Are All Lichens Now” 1
Think we must. We must think.
—Stengers and Despret, Women Who Make a Fuss 2
What happens when human exceptionalism and bounded individualism, those old saws of Western philosophy and political economics, become unthinkable in the best sciences, whether natural or social? Seriously unthinkable: not available to think with. Biological sciences have been especially potent in fermenting notions about all…
e-flux Journal
Posted: September 1, 2016
Category
Nature & Ecology
Subjects
Biology, Anthropocene, Human - Nonhuman Relations, Animals