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 these readings as a symptom of right-wing anti-environmentalism and its rhetorical collusion with extractive capital rather than as a theorist relevant to the seminar's intellectual concerns. Her invocation of biblical dominion to justify planetary exploitation serves the course material as evidence of how ideological frameworks naturalize ecological destruction, not as a thinker whose work on AI, cybernetics, or aesthetics warrants engagement. She functions here as a passing reference—a cultural artifact illustrating the stakes of who gets to narrate humanity's relationship to systems and resources.
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