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After The Human: Theory And Sociology In The Age Of Fractal Ambiguity, Dromology, And Emergent Epi-Spaces, Joel Michael Crombez May 2015

After The Human: Theory And Sociology In The Age Of Fractal Ambiguity, Dromology, And Emergent Epi-Spaces, Joel Michael Crombez

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Modernity marks both a novel form of political and economic organization, and a transformation of reality through technological and spatial innovations. It marks a shift in the history of life on this planet, for the technological appendage—originally created by and for humans—has a cost that is shared by all life on the planet, whether it be ecological, biological, or mental. As a result, the weight of responsibility for the continuation of life itself can no longer be rationally displaced onto an omnipotent other. The knowledge that rational thought functions on fractal scales of space and time—which need not account for …