May 2, 2023
Artificiality certainly distances--and I'd say alienates--us from nature in so far as the latter is conceived of as the wilderness, as an amoral, indifferent, inhuman, godless, monstrous domain into which we're thrown in the existential sense. Of course, at some level, we're also natural beings, so this is to say that nature has the capacity to undermine itself, as it does in the form of black holes too. I say more about this here: