| Lust att snickra en logga åt nonlinearhistorytours? Just do it! |
| Manuel DeLanda, A thousand years of nonlinear history: In the eyes of many human beings, life appears to be a unique and special phenomenon. There is, of course, some truth to this belief, since no other planet is known to bear a rich and complex biosphere. However, this view betrays an “organic chauvinism” that leads us to underestimate the vitality of the processes of self-organization in other spheres or reality. It can also make us forget that, despite the many differences between them, living creatures and their inorganic counterparts share a crucial dependence on intense flows of energy and materials. In many respects the circulation is what matters, not the particular forms that emerge. As the biogeographer Ian G. Simmons puts it, “The flows of energy and mineral nutrients through an ecosystem manifest themselves as actual animals and plants of a particular species.” Our organic bodies are, in this sense, nothing but temporary coagulations in these flows: we capture in our bodies a certain portion of the flow at birth, then release it again when we die and micro-organisms transform us into a new batch of new materials. The main form of matter-energy flow in the biosphere is the circulation of flesh in food chains. Flesh, or “biomass”, circulates continuously from plants to herbivores, and from herbivores to carnivores, giving the ecosystem its stability and resilience. […] Compared to plants and microorganisms, “higher” animals are just a fancy decorations in an ecosystem, consuming and transforming biomass with decreasing efficiency as their size increases. [p. 103-5] |
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