

Homo sapiens - the Human as species, the Anthropos as the human species,Modern Man - was a chief product of these knowledge practices. Biological sciences have been especially potent in fermenting notions about all the mortal inhabitants of the Earth since the imperializing eighteenth century. What happens when human exceptionalism and bounded individualism, those old saws of Western philosophy and political economics, become unthinkable in the best sciences, whether natural or social? Seriously unthinkable: not available to think with. Stengers and Despret, Women Who Make a Fuss 2

Scott Gilbert, “We Are All Lichens Now” 1
