#davidcayley — Public Fediverse posts
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"Medicine counts in years of life expectancy. Ecology defends life on earth. In all cases, life is a palpable, measurable and manageable entity – a unit of value. a unit of administration, a unit of political power. Life had been abstracted from persons... The word person describes a unique, storied and bounded destiny; a life is an amorphous instance of something unimaginably general and impossibly indistinct – the ultimate resource."
#DavidCayley, 2021
https://www.davidcayley.com/blog/2021/4/1/gaia-and-the-path-of-the-earth
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"[Ivan] Illich was not invoking these old meanings but pointing to something radically new – a system so total and comprehensive that there could be no ground or standpoint outside it. The very idea of a tool or an instrumental means, he argued, depended on a distinction between that tool and its user. A system in the contemporary sense incorporates its user – he/she becomes part of the system. One uses a hammer but joins a network."
#DavidCayley, 2021
https://www.davidcayley.com/blog/2021/4/1/gaia-and-the-path-of-the-earth