...the modern idea of productivity is so often a frame for what is actually the destruction of the natural productivity of an ecosystem [...] like the paradox in Zhuang Zhou's story, which more than anything is a joke about how narrow the concept of usefulness is. #JennyOdell

- February 14, 2026

...the modern idea of productivity is so often a frame for what is actually the destruction of the natural productivity of an ecosystem [...] like the paradox in Zhuang Zhou's story, which more than anything is a joke about how narrow the concept of usefulness is. #JennyOdell
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...the modern idea of productivity is so often a frame for what is actually the destruction of the natural productivity of an ecosystem [...] like the paradox in Zhuang Zhou's story, which more than anything is a joke about how narrow the concept of usefulness is. #JennyOdell

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