We cannot truly plan because we do not understand the future — but this is not necessarily bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan (2007/2010)
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If terror thrives on the production of epistemic murk and metamorphosis, it nevertheless requires the hermeneutic violence that creates feeble fictions in the guise of realism, objectivity, and the like, flattening contradiction and systematizing chaos.
Michael Taussig, Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man (1987)
indigenous studies
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All societies live by fictions taken as real. What distinguishes cultures of terror is that the epistemological, ontological, and otherwise philosophical problem of representation–reality and illusion, certainty and doubt […] becomes a high-powered medium of domination…
Michael Taussig, Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man (1987)
3 histories, what future?
HKW conference on the Anthropocene — keynote talk of historian and post-colonial theorist Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago
The Anthropocene Project An Opening
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin — January 12, 2013
