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Reading for Difference

  • J.K. Gibson-Graham (author)
Chapter of: Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene(pp. 103–109)

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TitleReading for Difference
ContributorJ.K. Gibson-Graham (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0100.1.19
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/manifesto-for-living-in-the-anthropocene/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightGibson-Graham, J.K.
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2015-04-14
Long abstractIt seems that rats have something to teach us humans at this point in the history of our species, at least that’s what I am hearing. In The End of the Long Summer Dianne Dumanoski tells us that “for most of the human career ... we have shared far more with rats: another species of nimble, flexible gener-alists and remarkable survivors” (Dumanoski 2009, 173). It’s only in the modern era of carboniferous capitalism, since most societies have hitched their fortunes to a fossil-fuel based growth strategy, that our species has become less rat-like—less nimble, less flexible, more specialist and increas-ingly less likely to survive the changes we have wrought on our Earth system. The irony is stark—as the behavioral dis-tance between rats and humans grows, so the “more evolved” species becomes increasingly vulnerable to the kinds of envi-ronmental shocks that rats have successfully weathered. Weteeter on the edge of extinction, they are ready to ride out the “end of the long summer.”
Page rangepp. 103–109
Print length7 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)