“A capitalist ethos of independence & productivity, & the pervasive colonial perception of nature as commodity, would have us see abandonment as natural, even inevitable. An ethics of abandonment is, what leads massive amounts of money & energy to be poured into fantasies of escape like Elon Musk’s rocket ship or billionaire bunker estates, or the politically mercurial fantasy of the rugged ablebodied survivalist living off the land post–climate apocalypse.”
Sunaura Taylor - Disabled Ecologies
“When do we celebrate, when do we howl with rage, when do we witness & mourn?” ~ Morales
“Processes of ecosystem impairment, illness, & mutation are not mere metaphors, but rather could generatively be understood as part of the disability experience: ecological disablement. While Haraway has urged us to “stay with the trouble” & Anna Tsing asks us to “live in our messes,” disability perspectives suggest that these endeavors require us to learn to adapt to & care for multispecies disability.”
Only just started, but this is a great book. If you are interested, here's a talk by Sunaura Taylor at last year's ACAB:
https://acabookfair.noblogs.org/recordings-from-acab-2024/
https://archive.org/download/ACAB2024_audios/ACAB2024%20-%20Disabled%20Ecologies.mp3
"Over multiple centuries, enslaved and exploited people would be forced to build the New World by transforming Native land into extractable resources (damming waterways, herding domesticated animals, cutting down forests, and filling in swamps) while abuse, brutal labor conditions, starvation, and a variety of pathogens carried over from Europe (and made worse by land disturbance) caused mass death and disablement."
~ Sunaura Taylor - Disabled Ecologies
"Beatrice speaks with Sunaura Taylor about how industrial pollution and systemic abandonment produce networks of disability among people, animals, and what she calls “injured landscapes;” how one community in Arizona organized against longstanding environmental pollution from arms manufacturing; and her new book, Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert."
Teaser here (35 min.): https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/teaser-disabled-ecologies-w-sunaura-taylor
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/125073251 Beatrice speaks with Sunaura Taylor about how industrial pollution and systemic a
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