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On 7/20/23 18:11, Joseph Rabie via Nettime-tmp wrote:
The issues in Europe are very different from those in the "New" World, where local populations lived in light symbiosis with the land until the colonialists arrived. Nature in Europe has been transformed over millennia by agricultural society, that has created largely humanised urban and rural landscapes (even seemingly natural mountain forests have been the object of husbandry), yet in harmony with the biosphere, until the industrial age turned vast swathes into an open-air factory.
See (geomorphologist) David Montgomery on soil and the plough. Then the idea of "harmony with the biosphere" appear rather difficult to entertain.
In general, ideas of profound discontinuity and "modernity before/after thinking" hide the the shared, basic parameters of all grain-based civilisations the last 5/6/7000 years: plough and extract until collapse.
In that sense, such ideas of paradigmatic ruptures paradoxically serve the very type of system that they confront, keeping the shared underlying dynamics hidden from view, whole focusing on "exceptions".
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