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"Anthropocene Lecture: McKenzie Wark"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQVJKeIsp-4
(Mostly just randomly, as a Huh Want Some Thing To Listen To And Know His Name thing, but it IS good)
"Even when the science it produces is verifyable -- basic metaphors drawn from ... social relations, and market relations, both enable but also limit scientific practice.
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... maybe to suggest, maybe there's a kindof a problem in thinking, 'ecology' as a self-correcting homeostasis that returns to equalibrium?
Because that's Adam Smith's notion of the market, yeah? That probably originally came from understandings of geology? So that's a metaphor -- like, maybe it's NOT homeostatic, right?"