Domination over nature is a systematic attitude, not isolated events

Evidence

It is my argument that domination over nature was not an event but a structure and a systematic process of thought that made domination a way of living in and seeing the world, an attitude, which explains why the destructiveness of nature and subjection of human beings to its forces were thoroughgoing and commensurately systematic. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 173

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels Bruno Latour’s and Carolyn Merchant’s arguments that the nature-culture mastery frame is a Western epistemological structure, and connects to the reader’s grafting/trees essay on instrumentalizing the natural world. — connects to: Rational self-preservation conquers nature only by imitating nature’s own rigidity — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 63; Depicted nature becomes a coded endorsement of industrial domination; Nature is the object of reason as liberation, not only domination — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 826 (+4 more)
• ADDENDUM: Directly relevant to ‘Grafting & Growth’ — the idea that domination of nature is a systematic ‘way of living in and seeing the world’ frames the trees-as-infrastructure material as part of a broader Western epistemic structure.