Total mediation makes nature nothing but domination-available, eliminating any positive first nature

Evidence

No first nature is in sight as long as history is natural history, and in this respect prehistory. The fact that nature no longer exists also means that everything, even society itself, is only nature – that even the non-identical does not positively exist, is only negatively recognisable. Since the human beings have existed – that is, since the separation between subject and object – nature has been available for them to dominate. However, theoretically speaking, this means that all nature is available for them. In practical terms, this availability is expanded by technological advancement, which knows neither unavailability nor non-identity – this also explains the ‘difficulty of positively defining first nature’. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1335

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the domination-of-nature thesis threading through Dialectic of Enlightenment. — connects to: Preserving nature within civilization always means dominating it more completely — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 145; Nature is the object of reason as liberation, not only domination — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 826; Domination over nature is a systematic attitude, not isolated events — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 173 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Wholly mediated self-interest produces a second, disarming naturalness #expands (0.85)
• Adorno rejects mastery of nature as progress because domination entangles humanity in nature #expands (0.85) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1585
• Domination over nature is a systematic attitude, not isolated events #expands (0.82) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 173
• Rational self-preservation conquers nature only by imitating nature’s own rigidity #expands (0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 63
• Hegemonic systems are neither seamless nor fully determinative of individual agency #contradicts (0.75) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 855
• Dominating nature chiefly becomes power over other humans #complicates (0.72) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 703