“There is no away,” environmental activist Annie Leonard says. “When you throw something away, it goes somewhere.” Once this simple insight hits you, you realize what a myth our culture has built itself upon. The meta-movement of domination and exploitation has told us that if we don’t like something, we can simply kill it, banish it, incarcerate it, incinerate it, ignore it, bury it, or otherwise throw it away … and it will be gone for good. But as James Baldwin realized, what is true of things in space is also true of time itself: “History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our
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