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James Bridle: Ways of Being : Animals, Plants, Machines (2022, Picador)

Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle’s Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of …

What sort of intelligence actively participates in the drilling, draining and despoliation of the few remaining wildernesses on earth, in the name of an idea of progress we already know to be doomed? This is not an intelligence I recognize. — location: [631]

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This is a wonderful reading about an intelligence bigger than individuals, incluinding nature and not excluding technology. But destructive capitalism definitely is something extremely dumb.