
Accident, Touch, and Privacy
Climate Change and the Unguided Evolution of Humanity
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About this book
In his investigation of the nature of madness and civilization, the French social theorist Michel Foucault expressed the difficulty most scholars have in addressing episodes of confusion that lead a society into acts of self-destruction and chaos. He maintained that one problem is "a realm, no doubt, where what is in question is the limits rather than the identity of a culture." The decision to continue as before, as if no changes have occurred, is a kind of madness, but the identity of normal people is associated with ideas of actions defined by the culture and performed as a means of demonstrating identity.Since today we have an evolving global culture that is an amalgam of European colonial history, the defeated servants of that history, and some of those who resisted, the nature of limited action is embedded in the values that led to the conquest of the world.This process remains a central motive factor in resistance to modifications of world economic institutions that might deflect the worst consequences of climate change for, at least, the next few generations to come.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface and Introductory Note
- Chapter One: Touching in the 21st Century
- Chapter Two: Hair in hominins and its evolution: Monocultures and Pandemics, Why Diversity Matters in Climate Change (Originally published in Evolutionary Anthropology (2005)
- Chapter Three: Gender variations and body negotiation by members of San Francisco gender rebels 1968-1974: The Cockettes, The Angels of Light, Sylvester and others in Ethnological Contrast
- Chapter Four: Why most Birds lack penises and what it means for being male and gender domination for individuals and society
- Chapter Five: Marriage variation and matriarchies as future realms
- Chapter Six: Beyond Zero Population: Ethnohistory, Archaeology and the Khmer, Climate Change and the Collapse of Civilizations
- Chapter Seven: Destroying Institutions
- Chapter 8: Climate Change, Economic Philosophy and The Policy Process
- Chapter 9 Garbage, Waste, Recycling and the “Toilet Mentality”
- Chapter Ten: Conclusion, and Perhaps a Positive Vision of the Future
- Appendix: The Minimum List of Goals for Human Survival