there I go with my nomothetic nattering

been slow on replies due to thesis-writing struggles, but a quick post:

I've been meaning to write about the concept of inverse specificity. it's really a concept I've poached from Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor by Rob Nixon, specifically from his chapter about fossil fuels and the puzzling lack of a literary riposte to something that has dictated and underpinned the sociopolitical life of a major half of the century:
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