Mechanistic erasure of nature’s agency foreclosed whole dramas of human exchange

Evidence

The intentional stance thus opens up between human self and earth others many of the joys, challenges and perplexities of the interplay and exchange between human self and human other which the mechanistic erasure of agency in nature had foreclosed. The intentional stance towards the earth other makes it possible to regain the dramas of interaction with nature which reductive science has stolen from us, and to be receptive to the stories of other beings and places in the world. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 512

Categorization

• XREF: Sets up the Aboriginal dialogue excerpt at 515-517 — leads into listening/observation-as-method thread across the polyad. — connects to: The organic-to-mechanistic shift reconstructed nature as dead and subordinate — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 51; Both nature’s mechanism and history’s determinism oppress the modern self — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 163

Broader Connections

• The organic-to-mechanistic shift reconstructed nature as dead and subordinate #expands (0.90) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 51
• Both nature’s mechanism and history’s determinism oppress the modern self #exemplifies (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 163