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diff --git a/subnature.otx b/subnature.otx index 74dd615..5ecc262 100644 --- a/subnature.otx +++ b/subnature.otx @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ information for hardware), we will not have the democratization of technical learning essential for sustainable forms of human survival. -\sec II +\sec\nl Hannah Arendt has noted the sense in which modern science began by viewing nature from a perspective outside the @@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ requires the rethinking of how modern science relates to socio-economic development on a global scale.\fnote{This argument is developed below in Section IV.} The second becomes even more crucial in the context of the presence of \e{Gaia.} -\sec III +\sec\nl The Gaia hypothesis was formulated by a space scientist trying to define how to identify the presence of life on Mars or @@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ co-operatively in Gaian ecology. \dq{Nature} is not, as the modern myth of progress suggests, amenable to endless interventions that secure socio-economic development. -\sec IV +\sec\nl The logics of commodification and technical control force a shorter and shorter time frame upon socio-economic decisions. @@ -851,7 +851,7 @@ as consistent with libertarian futures, they fail in their conception of how these \dq{islands of liberation} relate to wider social and political processes.\fnote{Yet there is a sense in which the anarchist position's notion that theory and practice is ultimately unified art the level of action which changes reality cannot be faulted. Especially in the American context, there is an affinity of anarcho-libertarianism and the historical symbols of independence, self-determination, and self-reliance which are, at least in origin, not reducible to possessive individualist idealizations of self-interested production for gain. These American practices were socially and ethically mediated by the ever-present American quest for \dq{community.} An anarchist practice still permeates the American movements for decentralization, ecology and appropriate technology, feminism, etc. There is also a unique amalgam of Old World utopian surplus and contemporary anarchist, neo-primitivist, and nativist symbols that simply mystifies Marxists---especially theoreticians who expect social relations to dance according to their notion of reason.} -\sec V +\sec\nl The dynamic of global development and the counter-potential of eco-development and re-inhabitation defines a conflict potential |