very interesting! i was just wondering who `nic' is. is it short for nicholas taleb?
best, seb (astian olma) On Dec 12, 2014, at 3:06 PM, nic <[1][email protected]> wrote: On 12/12/2014 11:24, nettime's avid reader wrote: This is the meaning of the Anthropocene: that the futures of the human and material worlds are now totally entwined. Just as Nietzsche declared that God is dead, now we know that ecology is dead. There is no longer a homeostatic cycle that can be put right just by withdrawing. There is no environment that forms a neutral background to working and hacking. Just as the category of `man' collapses once there is no God, so too the category of the social collapses when there is no environment. The material world is laced with traces of the human, and the human turns out to be made of nothing much besides displaced flows of this or that element or molecule. What a load of crap. It is this fantasy of total-control - of the collapse of the more-than-human world into the human world - that is undone by the Anthropocene. It is not ecology that is dead but *society* and along with it the macho-dream of 'Hacking the Planet!'). <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
