In 2000, hard-right provocateur Ann Coulter glossed Genesis 1:28 by declaring that ‘[t]he ethic of conservation is the explicit abnegation of man’s dominion over the Earth. … God said so: Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, and rape the planet…No matter how much we might wish it, no uprising of the oppressed will be disciplined and rigorous enough to contain all expressions of the vengeful urge, nor even that to cruelty. Much ‘Leninism’ has fondly fantasised about leading charges…
Ann Coulter
political commentator · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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Coulter appears in the course readings not as a theorist but as a symptom of a particular strain of right-wing rhetoric that instrumentalizes religious dominion narratives to justify extraction and environmental destruction. The excerpt positions her provocative invocation of Genesis as exemplifying how ideological frameworks rationalize unlimited human dominance over planetary systems, relevant to the seminar's concern with how narratives of control underwrite both technological and ecological violence. She functions here as a passing reference to locate a rhetorical position rather than as a substantive voice in debates about AI, cybernetics, or artistic intervention.
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