Project-based theory proposes collective agency while entanglement theory pretends preferences suffice
Evidence
Provocations in these theories work not as invitations to masturbate with the material object of the book, not as incitements to individual intensities, but as exhortations to assent to collective visions and take collective responsibility. This is not the distributed interconnectedness of entanglement theory, promulgating the fancy that epistemic preferences will redress ecocide. It is, instead, the embrace of mass agency to expel the hyperconsuming majority and propel the state toward the uniform large-scale lines in the sand. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 365
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- SEED: The contrast between entanglement theory’s epistemic-preference politics and mass-agency politics is a strong essay angle on ecological collective action.