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Today most of our people are so conditioned that they do not wish to harrow clods either with an old horse or with a new tractor. Yet Hardy’s vision has come to be more urgently true than ever. The great difference these sixty years have made is that, though we feel that this work must go onward, we are not so certain that it will. But the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
In the work of Shelley Tremain, what is put at stake is often philosophy as a practice that is meant to give an account of who exists, how they exist, and how they are to be managed.
On Human Capital and the Eugenic Commitment
RevoltingBodies
As debt appeared, money flourished. But for money to have value, an institution, the state, had to make it trustworthy. When we talk about the economy, this is what we are talking about: the complex relations that emerge in a society with a surplus.
Talking to My Daughter
Yanis Varoufakis
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