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We live in times of anthropogenic climate crisis. Or do we? This essay shows how “humanity” is a thoroughly modern fetish forged the bloodbath militarized accumulation and conquest after 1492. To say that Anthropos drives crisis implicates historical actor does not exist. But reality different. Humanity nothing. Specific groups humans make history – empires, classes, religious institutions, arm...