Ecology's Rainbow

tags: LAW 328 Green Legal Theory

Notes

No matter how capacious, taxonomy necessarily remains incomplete: you cannot fold the world into an alphabet, or a palette.

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Green has become our synonym for sustainability, but such a colorful ascription begs the question of exactly what mode of being we are attempting to sustain, and at what environmental cost.

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quiet faith in the totality envisioned by Deep Ecology, in a world that if left to its primordial solitude would abide in lasting stability.

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The best green criticism is ceaseless in its natality.

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green too frequently signifies a return, however belatedly, to the verdancy of an unspoiled world, to whatever remnants of a lost paradise might be reclaimed.

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only Africa has indigenous humans

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cf Making Aboriginal People ‘Immigrants Too’ for a discussion of the "supposed universality of a shared pan-Canadian immigration experience"

To obtain such revelatory power the wilderness must be imagined as a purified place to which one travels rather than dwells always within

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Latour coined the "dirty" term kakosmos to describe the tangled, fecund, and irregular pluriverse humans inhabit along with lively and agency-filled objects, materials, and forces. A middle space, unbounded, perturbed, contingent.

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an illegible space

Yet what is at stake in limiting agency to an origin in human volition-as if we intend much of what we accomplish?

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untidy and dispersive entanglement similar to what Pickering calls a man gle, Latour a network, Morton a mesh, Stacy Alaimo transcorporeality, Tim Ingold a meshwork, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari an assemblage, Graham Harman (working in a register with far greater emphasis on the integrity of objects, but one in deep sympathy with network theory) the quadruple object, mapped via ontography. Such a web might also be called an environment (from a Middle English noun that means circuit, itself from an oId French verb that means to veer) or an ecosystem (a fragile co-dwelling of organisms, things, and elements in relation).

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Catastrophe flows at vitality's side.

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The desire of the Muddy Mississippi is to pour into the Atchafalaya River and surge into the Gulf a few hundred miles west of its current delta.

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Instead of living with the muddy river, those dwelling in New Orleans have attempted its domestication.

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