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Amitav Ghosh, anthropocene:
anthropos = human, shifts during the colonial…
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boutleja
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if we lump people into identity categories, we are going to reproduce the colonial way of thinking.
free market economy
markets are never free, they are always constituted on war
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ancient greece: soul regulates your appetites and your actions - your reason is located in your soul, not in the brain.
reason is everywhere in the body.
reason is also in animal life, in trees, in inanimate objects like rocks
the manipulation of 'nature' occurred epistemologically in a framework where humans were not sitting on it
the break in modernity is that the earth itself becomes an object on which humans act, rather than the earth historically being an actor alongside humans.
The enlightenment was seen as the liberation of humans from nature. Liberating yourself from constraint, however, also means that you are mastering constraint.
Modernity speaks of the exercise of freedom, but it doesn't acknowledge the fact that freedom also means that you exercise power over the thing that you free yourself from - you master it
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alienation: emotional, intellectual, and philosophical categories
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given the power and the means, all nationalists can become fascists
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whiteness: what emerges out of colonial conquest/
Europeans did not know that they were white till colonial conquest
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