Agra-Kings, Agra-Gods, and the Death of the Planet

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For my money, one of the most insightful critics working just now is Timothy Morton, whose latest book, Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People lays out one direction human thinking might go if we manage to save ourselves here in the Anthropocene.

Morton’s focus is “object-oriented ontology,” a very Western world way of saying that everything matters.