Prophylaxis is on everyone’s mind these days. Oh what a reversal from only a few months ago, when the decades long march of promiscuous ontologies seemed unstoppable. Are freedom and mobility unquestionable virtues? Should everything touch everything else? Until recently the answer was an unmitigated YES. The Spinozians spoke of flat ontologies. ...
This is such a shock to our geological imagination because our understanding of what the world is and how it works (our“ontologies”) have largely considered the Earth as something stable : as the static ground of being and knowing. The Kinocene should therefore be aloud wake-up call to us that ...
