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DONNA HARAWAY on Staying with the Trouble /131

For The Wild

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The Thul-a-Scene and the Capitalist O-Scene

The anthropocene was proposed for the thickness of the now in which human beings become a planetary transformative force of a dominant kind. The notion that the thulu scene is the time of the happy fonic earthlings is nonsense, because the earth itself is in revolt and rising against its destroyers. And then as I just described the plantation of seeing the beginning of all of this really was in the invention of the plantation and enslaved labor systems. That's what I was trying to do. But it was really a mistake on my part not to call it the thano scene. It was unconscious."

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