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Of course, we cannot actually attest to fact that it is false, because, precisely, we
know nothing about it. Our self-approbations, intelligence, and pragmatism are
superego posited postures; no more than the map of human vainglories vanquishing
and thereupon vanquished in the rage of order. To seek a neutral ground at both
cusps of a conscious bifurcation is to, again, intimate a class of mathematically
perplexing edge effects that work between X and Y, both modifying, transgressing,
and engendering geospatial and semiotic causality. In the Amazon, such effects are
physically relatable to the impacts, for example, of road building through sensitive
habitat. In the case of demography, there are enormous spatial and psychological
levels of fallout. Potts, Hillen, and Lewis write, “On the individual-level, an edge
effect is a change in behavioral tendency on or near the edge. On the populationlevel, it is a pattern of population abundance near an edge that cannot be explained
in terms of either habitat in isolation.”
2
If cause-and-effect do, in fact, work after the fact of our machinations, we have
reason to be hopeful about the future of the world, an approximate bounty of cohesion that rebounds in the wake of trauma. The possibilities of a hare, a duck, or a
deer. The atheist and atomist may decline to consult the pantheist, the pantheist, the
atomist. But hidden within their many divided injunctions, across the full spectrum
of human attribution, and all the edges of its societal bifurcations, lay buried in a
heap of forgotten connections, an inextinguishable love between organisms that
contests all philosophies and variables of malice. Certainly, there are arguments for
and against this position. But viewed post-biologically, which is to posit a postevolutionary world, even in the total abstract, is to envision after H. sapiens have
moved on, a renaissance for all Others (Fig. 69.2).
2 See “The ‘edge effect’ phenomenon: deriving population abundance patterns from individual
animal movement decisions,” by Jonathan R. Potts, Thomas Hillen and Mark A. Lewis, Theoretical
Ecology, 9, 233–247 (2016), December 23, 2015, SpringerLink, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12080-015-0283-7, Accessed June 23, 2020.
69.2 The Possibility of a Post-human Renaissance
69.2 The Possibility of a Post-human Renaissance
Of course, we cannot actually attest to fact that it is false, because, precisely, we
know nothing about it. Our self-approbations, intelligence, and pragmatism are
superego posited postures; no more than the map of human vainglories vanquishing
and thereupon vanquished in the rage of order. To seek a neutral ground at both
cusps of a conscious bifurcation is to, again, intimate a class of mathematically
perplexing edge effects that work between X and Y, both modifying, transgressing,
and engendering geospatial and semiotic causality. In the Amazon, such effects are
physically relatable to the impacts, for example, of road building through sensitive
habitat. In the case of demography, there are enormous spatial and psychological
levels of fallout. Potts, Hillen, and Lewis write, “On the individual-level, an edge
effect is a change in behavioral tendency on or near the edge. On the populationlevel, it is a pattern of population abundance near an edge that cannot be explained
in terms of either habitat in isolation.”
2
If cause-and-effect do, in fact, work after the fact of our machinations, we have
reason to be hopeful about the future of the world, an approximate bounty of cohesion that rebounds in the wake of trauma. The possibilities of a hare, a duck, or a
deer. The atheist and atomist may decline to consult the pantheist, the pantheist, the
atomist. But hidden within their many divided injunctions, across the full spectrum
of human attribution, and all the edges of its societal bifurcations, lay buried in a
heap of forgotten connections, an inextinguishable love between organisms that
contests all philosophies and variables of malice. Certainly, there are arguments for
and against this position. But viewed post-biologically, which is to posit a postevolutionary world, even in the total abstract, is to envision after H. sapiens have
moved on, a renaissance for all Others (Fig. 69.2).
2 See “The ‘edge effect’ phenomenon: deriving population abundance patterns from individual
animal movement decisions,” by Jonathan R. Potts, Thomas Hillen and Mark A. Lewis, Theoretical
Ecology, 9, 233–247 (2016), December 23, 2015, SpringerLink, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12080-015-0283-7, Accessed June 23, 2020.
69.2 The Possibility of a Post-human Renaissance