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2 other voices:
this is a beautifully composed, inspiring and generative piece. his critique of the privilege of imagination while inside the very discourse is brilliant.
mr rob hopkins also makes me think about the need for speculative fiction reading groups as transition method.
however, in thinking about this talk, (and i'd like some help with this) i'm brought into relation with my anxiety about the operation of social darwinism and evolutionary logic that persists even in the very moments that we critique the conclusions of its forming. there are modes of thinking, of feeling, of imagining, which operate and propagate outside of this epistemic totality. i want to go to there. or rather, i want to know how to go to there.
right there with you (or rather, going also to there), Mel.
his argument that it is the narrative of prosperity that allows us to reconcile economic, social, and environmental travesties with western values really resonates with me. his recognition that the stories we tell permit us to continue a wasteful and short sighted behaviour makes me think that maybe the utility of language is actually being recognized by thinkers if not also policy makers.
I wonder too, about the persistence of social darwinism even within initiatives like this. can we ever escape it? Is our social structure not an important part of our biological survival? I wonder what Haraway would say?
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