Moreover, because of the roots of all the “isms” that Wynter coherently reports for us, a truly “new” environmental politics would render our present world unrecognizable
the "isms" referred to in this are like thousands of years of history how is this new world going to be formed as the idea of "perfect" isnt real and it feels like thats what shes trying to describe the relationship between humans and the environment in this new world.
“all bodies become more than mere object, as the thing-powers of resistance and protean agency are brought into sharper relief.”
in a way that everything is like a living thing? like we should treat it like we treat each other? rather than use it and discard it?
There are dangers in an approach that seeks to lessen the distinctness between “humanity” and “the rest of matter.”
the idea of "humanity" and "the rest of matter" can be very complex in society as in a way many people already refuse to show humanity to humans already its like a double edge sword. it just opens a can of worms that people refuse to participate in because of their own personal ideals.
My investigation into their visual and literary contributions, however, refuses an analytic that focuses on the ways in which their national and cultural differences /particularities justify their connected exploration
Why ignore a crucial part in their lives that made them who they are and that helped them formed their ideas? the culture and society one grows up in affects their mindset and viewpoint on almost everything. Butler and Mutu grew up having extremely different lives, comparing growing up in Kenya and California are extremely different.
In the second age “we created money”; in the third age “money became a god”
we created the root of the issue that we now have to fix as money is the root of evil for almost everything in current society and life and for everything around us
Finally the age of the money god creates the fourth age, our time, the Anthropocene, in which human creative potential can only be turned toward the production of death: “In the fourth age we created deserts. . . . At last all wells were poisoned, all rivers ran with filth, all seas were dead; there was no land left to grow food.”
The average human life cycle is now well meaning less as all we live for is to earn and survive which ruins the planet because of our source's of income and work that contribute to the harm of the environment and each other in a way.
This standpoint, the one scientists and ecological humanists have popularly dubbed the Anthropocene, thereby registers a radical hollowing-out of the utopian potential of futurity—nicely befitting, perhaps, a cultural moment in which not only “the end of history” (Fukuyama 1989) but also the near-term imminence of human extinction increasingly seems to be a matter of scientific certainty.
The end of the world in kind of near for both the earth and everything that resides on it from how hollow the chance of survival is looking. Nothing is kind of going good at all for anything on this planet long term. The more advancements people make regarding technology the more bleak the future looks. But as human extinction comes closer, so does the end of the planet because of the harmful substances that are going to be left behind that nothing can adapt to.
Here Arendt finds the real world playing catch-up to science fiction: “What is new is only that one of this country’s most respectable newspapers finally brought to its front page what up to then had been buried in the highly non-respectable literature of science fiction (to which, unfortunately, nobody yet has paid the attention it deserves as a vehicle of mass sentiments and mass desires)”
The bizarre science fiction things that were just things of imagination are slowly and surely becoming reality because of how the earth is being tarnished by the things on it. Fiction is slowly being reality and people are kind of not taking it seriously at all because of how disconnected they are from the reality of it all and think that its something for the future to worry about.
Kin-making is making persons, not necessarily asindividuals or as humans. I was moved in college by Shakespeare’s punning between kin andkind—the kindest were not necessarily kin as family; making kin and making kind (as category,care, relatives without ties by birth, lateral relatives, lots of other echoes) stretch theimagination and can change the story.
The idea of Kin is something so much more and beyond just blood relations. Kin is something that can be forced with connection in both people and animals and even plants because of their coexisting environments/situations that lead to connections. In a way we can be kind to everything around us even if were not connected to them, especially the environment which in a way we are connected to but we should be taking care of it and be kind to it as it nurtures us and grows with us, but instead of helping it, we as humans are the main cause of its destruction.
Right now, the earth is full of refugees, human and not, without refuge.
This phrase in a way describes both the future and the present as everyone is being displaced weather they are an animal, plant or human, no one truly has a home anymore and is a stranger to every new place they have to go to because of how the planet is slowly dying over time. Refugees in theory can make do with what they have and adapt for survival but can we always change the way we live till there is no where for us to live anymore?
It's more than climate change; it's alsoextraordinary burdens of toxic chemistry, mining, depletion of lakes and rivers under andabove ground, ecosystem simplification, vast genocides of people and other critters, etc, etc, insystemically linked patterns that threaten major system collapse after major system collapseafter major system collapse
Climate change is not the only thing that humans do that is ruining the environment day by day. With each new innovation a part of the planet is put at risk which is sometimes irreversible and permanent. Many species are on the verge of extinction because of how their ecosystems have been destroyed beyond repair for humans needs which just leads to a cycle of many animals extinction and pictures of them are the only thing we have left.