Technological mastery extinguishing nature and cultures is dominated by men by design
Evidence
It is hard to deny the power of that vision, or its ability to harness the hope and the sorrow the present world holds for those who can bear to confront its current course. We do live in a world increasingly and distressingly like the feminist dystopias, where technological mastery extinguishes both nature and less technologically ‘rational’ cultures, where we face the imminent prospect of loss of the world’s forests along with the bulk of its species diversity and human cultural diversity, where already many cultures have had the whole basis of ancient survival patterns destroyed by a species of development and ‘progress’ which produces inequality as inexorably as it produces pollution and waste, and where the dominance of ‘rational’ man threatens ultimately to produce the most irrational of results, the extinction of our species along with many others. Ecological feminism tells us that is is no accident that this world is dominated by men. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 55
Categorization
- XREF: Links extinction of cultures and species to the same development-and-progress logic that the Eco-Justice thread reads as settler-colonial environmental racism. — connects to: Depicted nature becomes a coded endorsement of industrial domination; American Progress conflates cultural domination with technological progress — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 631; The awe of technology substitutes for transcendence in mass culture. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 110 (+7 more)
Broader Connections
- Machine mastery perpetuates rather than ends enslavement
#corroborates(0.82) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 635 - Depicted nature becomes a coded endorsement of industrial domination
#corroborates(0.80) - American Progress conflates cultural domination with technological progress
#exemplifies(0.80) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 631 - Humanist technological progress assumed an environment crowded with humans at nature’s expense
#corroborates(0.78) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 714 - Technological change explains oppression only when human ambition projects new demands onto it
#qualifies(0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 147 - A logic of domination justifies ruling nature via culture-nature hierarchy.
#expands(0.75) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 511 - Modern societies adopt a gardener’s stance of engineered order over nature
#expands(0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 171 - The awe of technology substitutes for transcendence in mass culture.
#expands(0.72) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 110 - Technical civilisation’s new hero is restrained mastery, not liberation
#qualifies(0.72) - Mass culture’s technical rationality masks class domination as consumer demand.
#corroborates(0.72) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 94