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- - - - non-human umwelts
        
        biofiction as a method of co-umwelt, inhabiting a world not our own
- - - - biodigital convergence
    - - Origins of inequality
        
        Hobbes: predetermined ("nasty, brutish, and short")
        
        Rousseau: looking backward to explain today
        
        Jared Diamond: agriculture, sedentary living
    - - Nations
        
        post-nations
        
        nations as monopolies of power
        
        movement towards distributed governance and agencies
        
        breakdown of clear borders
  - - - intelligence is a function of connectedness
    - - it occurs across the mind and body
      - the body and other organisms
      - assumptions on intelligence often underestimate other ways of knowing
        
        non-individuality of biological species
- - - - embedded intimacy of experiential sensory
        
        topos v. logos
        
        “Power and place produce personality” (Deloria and Wildcat 2001)
      - olfactory object
        
        smell as proxy for object
        
        smell as mental object
        
        atmo-orientalism
        
        Classen: less about the fear of smell, and more about the fear of social decay that the small causes
        
        cultural otherness overlaps with environmental toxicity
        
        biopolitics of the senses
        
        hierarchies of animacy
        
        inanimate/animate matter, sensible/inert matter
        
        cyborgs and hybrids. breakdown of false binaries
- - - - markers for time
      - passage of time as collective memory
      - time as a shared experience
    - - "erasure of history from our memories and our surroundings and finally, our dizzying collevtive arrival in a future no one was ready for."
- - - - wetware vs hardware
    - - much of history has been trying to keep up with modernization
      - technological singularity = apocolyptic goal
      - technosignatures
- - - - Planetary scale cognition :
        
        authentic continental citizenship
- - - - altruistic social interaction with nature, objects, habits as source of happiness
      - biological degeneration and recycling as reincarnation
- - - - porosity of social networks / methods / outputs
        
        new fictions of artworlds