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ALT Bold white text reads: "The Fate of Composition" Text is overlaying a sepia tone aerial image of industrial logging, with patchworks of clear cuts and logging roads dissecting the Cascade mountains in the Pacific Northwest.
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ALT The cover of Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature by Alyssa Battistoni
ALT A photo of the Longview paper processing facility, showing large metal containers, chimneys, and conveyor belts.
ALT An entire drainage basin, spanning hundreds of thousands of square miles, crossing major terrestrial and aquatic biomes, countless ecological matrices, species compositions, and emergent ecosystems, shoveled into the maw of development-what better image of our grisly metabolism? Timber, paper, energy, water, dataāin every expanse of the capitalist metabolic mesh, the real flux of biogeochemical cycles and ecological relationships is manipulated into discrete raw material inputs, fuel stocks or energy flows, or biophysical infrastructure, the crude stuff of material throughput pricing and caloric accounting. Human labor power too is no less violently wrested from the metabolic flux, reduced to pure form at the cost of real blood, sweat, and tears, while the tiniest subset of the species enjoy the fruits of this "human unity," an ouroboros of planetary scale. On the Columbia as elsewhere, each phase of metabolic development has brought not long-term growth and prosperity, nor an ecologic
