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112 See Slavoj Žižek, The Sublime Object of Ideology (London: Verso, 1991), 79.
113 Philip Merilees coined this phrase for Edward Lorenz at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1972.
114 See Steven Jonson, Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002).
115 DM, 366.
116 I am paraphrasing George Morrison, The Weaving of Glory (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 1994), 106.
117 See nonukes.org/ngl.htm.
118 U.S. Secretary of State Bill Richardson thwarted the plan in 2000. The scheme would have released six thousand tons of radioactive nickel from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for manufacture in household items such as silverware. See energycommerce.house.gov/press/106nr7.shtml.
119 Marx, Capital, 556.
120 Edward Thomas, “First Known When Lost,” in The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas, ed. R. George Thomas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981). By permission of Oxford University Press.
121 See Mark Townsend and Paul Harris, “Now the Pentagon Tells Bush: Climate Change Will Destroy Us,” The Observer, February 22, 2004, guardian.co. uk/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver. See also Paul Virilio, Popular Defense and Ecological Struggles, trans. Mark Polizzotti (New York: Semiotext(e), 1990).
122 Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Free Press, 2006).
123 Wo Es war, soll Ich werden (Where Id was, there shall Ego be). Sigmund Freud, Lecture 31, “The Dissection of the Psychical Personality,” in New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (New York: Norton, 1989), 71–100 (99–100).
124 Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007). See also “The Death of Environmentalism” (Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger; available online at thebreakthrough.org/images/Death_of_Environmentalism.pdf).
125 T. S. Eliot, Collected Poems, 1909–1962 (London: Faber and Faber, 1974).
126 For further discussion, see EwN, 109–123.
127 Walter Benjamin, “Notes to the Theses on History,” in Gesammelte Schriften, ed. Theodor Adorno and Gershom Scholem (Frankfurt am Main: Surkhamp, 1972), 1.1232.
128 Georges Bataille, Theory of Religion, trans. Robert Hurley (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992), 57.