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We rely on the existence of an “away,” where all this heat, waste, everything, goes to and stays in. But it never disappears – it comes back.

Buildings Born Ruins: Philosophy and Architecture After the Apocalypse - Failed Architecture

Can the ensemble – or perhaps gamelan – of these forces attain a momentum that may be able to develop a vision of sustainability as a new transcendence?

Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)

Dr. Stibbe’s book, The Stories We Live By, and free online course are full of real-life examples: of economics textbooks that describe people as “consumers” who are driven by an insatiable need to buy; the government documents that position cows and horses as “units” as though they are as lifeless as a kitchen cupboard; and the United Nations’ Sust

Deep Ecology • Why We Need New Words for Nature

when people suggested the haenyeo start using oxygen tanks, she, along with other divers around the island, refused. “Everything we do must be natural,” she’d told the collective, “otherwise we’ll harvest too much, deplete our wet fields, and earn nothing.” There, again, balance.

Lisa See • The Island of Sea Women (201 POCHE)

When I arrived at the old Qlapaw tribal site, I accidentally discovered the abandoned hut of a mountain farm. It was a shelter built with canvas printed campaign portraits, bamboo and wood of various lengths. It looks like a nest woven with plastic straps in order to lay eggs by parent birds who weave its nest in the wastes of the modern world. It ... See more

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The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes

Scott Wallace

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Beneath these giants, way down in the understory, her own body seems freakishly small, like one of those acorn-people she made in childhood.

Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel

So anthropology grounds Asya. At the same time, the novel gestures to the discipline’s troubled past, with its colonial underpinnings and tendency to exploit, extract, and other its subjects.

Cara Blue Adams • Infra-ordinary People | Cara Blue Adams

A scientist’s explanations about other animals are dictated by the data she collects, which are influenced by the questions she asks, which are steered by her imagination, which is delimited by her senses. The boundaries of the human Umwelt often make the Umwelten of others opaque to us.