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Regenerative Time - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Human subsistence economies = value extraction
    - - glimpses of alternative, liveable relationalities, and hopefully contributes to other possible worlds in the making, or 'alterontologies', at the heart of contemporary technoscience
    - - anthropocentric appeal of predominant timescales of technoscientific futurity and their reductive notion of innovation
      - care time, in practice and experience, is neither a slowed mode of, nor outside , the timescales of technoscientific futurity
  - - - Human agricultural practices exhausted soils across the world well before industrialization (Hillel 1992)
        
        Leads to deforestation to find more fertile land
        
        soil care does not belong on anthropocentric timescale
        
        impending loss of soil will affect how the inheritors of agricultural revoln will care for univ
    - - Future = pull of technosci “expectation”
        
        permanent anxiety 'in which our "presents" are necessarily understood as contingent upon an ever-changing astral future that may or not may be known for certain
        
        “present of action is diminished, mortgaged to an unsure tomorrow”
        
        “Hype” of futuristic, progress driven innovation co-depend on fear of doom, hope for salvation
    - - Linear imperative of progress vs fears of regression
      - Time embedded in practices paced with productivity ethos
        
        Time is not abstract, but a “lived, embodied, historically and socially situated exp”
      - Restless futurity
  - - - Science has been “oriented by a typically linear orientation to the future”
        
        need output and profit for innovation
    - - Oil extraction in arctic zones
      - Rush to grab fertile land as less of it is avail
    - - Progressivism suspicion of “turning back the clock”
        
        Want to increase agricultural yield while promote sustain soil care
  - - - Early studies on plant nutrition based on “bank balance approach”
      - Fertilizer = “intensify the nutrient input in soils beyond the rhythm by which crops absorb them”
    - - Timescale of soil exploitation disregards the future to benefit the present
      - “Productionism transforms care from a co-constructed interdependent relation into mere ctrl of the object of care”
        
        "care requires thinking from the perspective of the maintenance of a web of relations involved in the very possibility of ecosystems rather than only from their possible benefits to humans.”
  - - - “Once again, re-conceptualizations of soil as living emphasize how productionist practices ignore the complex diversity of soil renewal processes in favour of linear temporalities”
    - - Humans as members of soil community, rather than just beneficiaries
      - Human activities have higher impact in shorter time than have other org
  - - - Ingham suggest use microscope to view soil org
    - - rethink human ecological practice in material, ethical, and affective dimensions
      - “Temporal tuning entre humans and soils” not a co-evoln but an involuntary momentum
  - - - Re-learning =/= return to pre-industrial landscape
    - - Productivity = transform material de less valued to more valued state
        
        Modern science: “innovate or perish” ethos
      - Care = reproductive, maintenance, repair
        
        Valuing care by 'efficiency' standards transforms its practice into a managed 'conduct' to be monitored”
        
        “very material sustaining of the world”
- - - - Names of periods, epochs, ages are named after local places
        
        E.g. Devonian = after Devonshire England
        
        BUT chunks of times are global, not local
  - - - Omani is a city of “gulf futurism”
        
        “deranged optimism about the sustainability of both oil reserves and late capitalism”
        --Qatari-Amer artist Sophia Al-Maria
        
        “dizzying collective arrival in a future no one was ready for”
        
        “Oman has been floating in this state of temporal suspension since 1970.”
        
        “An agitated present”
        
        20 yrs = not long enough to be an emergency, but still provisional and tense
        
        Overthrow Sultan, replace with son Qaboos (British groomed)
        
        Omani modernization
        
        Omanization → stem foreign laboreres de E. Africa and India
        
        S. Asian workers cont to build all the infrastructure (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh)
        
        Oman is an example of “local places with which geologists work to synchronize global geological timescales”
      - Omani oil = illusion of “instantaneous modernization”; “launch the country into the future”
    - - “An attitude as it is an institutional or cultural cond”
      - “a mental temper distinguished by perpetual self-consciousness and critique.”
  - - - Contributes to “sense of liminal and precarious modernity”
  - - - Geologists “tether contingent temporal objects into algo approaching a global timescale”
    - - Shuhai Xiao (Virginia Tech): “If you didn’t tell me where we were, I would think this is exactly the Ordovician in China!”
        
        lithological gestalt is disoriented as to both where and when he is
        
        Connected histories (Sanjay Subrahmanyam)
    - - “multiple temporal levels of differing duration and varied origin that are nonetheless simultaneously present and effective.”
        
        “stratum upon stratum of the past [that] flows in and through the present at varying velocities.” – John Zammito
      - “conceptual historians and critical theorists here understand historical temporality to be a concretization and thickening of something substantive, movable, and durable”
        
        stratigraphic thinking temporalizes rather than simply spatializing (planetary) changes in material states and forces.” (K. Yusoff)
  - - - GSSP site = prize to demo quality of geological work done in that country
    - - ⅔ voting members must agree on location for golden spike
    - - Chronostratigraphy = sand flowing por hourglass
        Geochronology = time interval for sand to flow
  - - - When calling monarchy and traditional dress “premodern”
    - - Like the Omani rocks that defy easy efforts at transnational periodization, Omani modernity does not synchronize with other modernities nor does it progress linearly.
        
        Omani modernity floats in a present whose duration is uncertain.
      - Edward Said, both historical and geological temporalities are “traveling theor[ies],” both in that they encounter frictions as they travel, and that they are theories of how time can travel
- - - - Reimagine humanity in shared env
        
        society based on mutuality and lateral coexistence among species and computational machines.
        
        However, our lexicon “construct worlds that silently imply a false dichotomy between humans on the one hand and nature and machines on the other.”
        
        “The boundaries between sovereign consciousness, nature, valued knowledge, biotechnologies, power and social reality are optical illusions.”
        
        Sandwich entre future tech (AI, synbio) and und ancient bacterial systems
        
        proliferation of smart tech
        
        the author is forgetting that many ppl in LMIC do not have access to AI and the most advanced tech
      - “our lack of compassion and limited definitions of what a valued member of society is — are failing us”
        
        our ideals — all men are created equal, for example — are often in direct opposition to our legislated power relations
    - - rememory as an undoing, unraveling and rewriting of corporeal constitutive elements
        
        Escape the recursive futures
        
        collectively, we need to negotiate our shared future
    - - “how we liberate our minds from the infinite loop of repression”
    - - “Humans have the responsibility to reconceive the systems that threaten communities rendered simultaneously hyper-visible and invisible by their perceived difference. “
        
        As distinct from utopia, protopia is a state that is better today than yesterday, even if only somewhat so because the progress is incremental.
      - “Black liberation rests on the construction of a non-oppositional consciousness”