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The Earthly Community: Reflections on the Last Utopia by Achille Mbembe

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5.0

As expected, this short book is dense with critiques about where the path the colonial project - and its current techno-fascist permutation - has taken us. My most treasured takeaway of this generous and important text is that, as humanity advances towards artificialization, deploying computational thinking upon the earth, abstracting it into numbers in service of market, a return to a mystical relationship with the earth is a step towards utopia, one where the current synthetic fetish is neutralised by listening and opening space for all histories and ways of being in the planet.
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