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<blockquote>We require another holism if we are going to think at a planetary scale without just upgrading or retweeting the basic agricultural theological meme</blockquote> | <blockquote>We require another holism if we are going to think at a planetary scale without just upgrading or retweeting the basic agricultural theological meme</blockquote> |
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<blockquote>The symbiotic real is necessarily ragged and pockmarked.</blockquote> | <blockquote>The symbiotic real is necessarily ragged and pockmarked.</blockquote> |
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===Chapter 1=== | ====Chapter 1==== |
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<blockquote>actual “life” as opposed to Life with a capital L inhabits this excluded middle zone. What is called “life” is a hesitancy between two different kinds of death: blind machination and total nonexistence.</blockquote> | <blockquote>actual “life” as opposed to Life with a capital L inhabits this excluded middle zone. What is called “life” is a hesitancy between two different kinds of death: blind machination and total nonexistence.</blockquote> |
<blockquote>Which comes first, racism or anti-environmentalism? This has to do with a deep philosophical issue: which subtends the other, racism or speciesism? Does racism exist because we discriminate between humans and every other lifeform? Or does speciesism exist because we hold racist beliefs about people who don’t look exactly like us?</blockquote> | <blockquote>Which comes first, racism or anti-environmentalism? This has to do with a deep philosophical issue: which subtends the other, racism or speciesism? Does racism exist because we discriminate between humans and every other lifeform? Or does speciesism exist because we hold racist beliefs about people who don’t look exactly like us?</blockquote> |
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