ABSTRACT
The nature/culture division has created problems not just in our ability to gain knowledge, but is also a major factor in the inordinate suffering in/of the world. Dissolution of the material/discursive boundary is more than an academic exercise. The nature/culture divide must be transgressed if we are to address the environmental crises of our time. Foster (2002) argues that the reason we have such difficulty addressing the problems of the Anthropocene is the opposition of ecology with capitalism. Instead of framing entities as objects of consumption, the ontological turn asks us to reorient ourselves to a flat ontology, in which humans or specific groups of humans are not privileged over other entities. Bennett (2010) writes about the public as a collective of entities with a common experience, with a common interest in harm. Latour (2004) argues that public life has been split into two houses, and this split has separated humans from other entities.
