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There are no guarantees that things will turn out very well for anyone. A sunny disposition is not an action plan or a to-do list. “Just have faith” is a strategy that forecloses our capacity to challenge power.
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Now she sees a forest, spreading across these mountains since before humans left Africa, giving way to second homes. She sees it in one great glimpse of flashing gold: trees and humans, at war over the land and water and atmosphere. And she can hear, louder than the quaking leaves, which side will lose by winning.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
Cyber-capital encloses and regulates the bounds of identity in trying to map out the user at the same time as it seeks to produce an identity equal to that of the mapping. The oldest and most active forms of these mappings, racialization and gender stratification, are hence built into the eye of Capital, which aims to analyze and map out everything, so as to make the best bets on its returns at the same time that it reduces the object of its gaze to an exchangeable commodity.
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