To lawyers, at least, the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences represent techniques for determining, representing, measuring, and summing desire. 

The ecomodernists envision a decoupling from nature founded on further integration into private markers and technical innovation.

To prevent social and ecological disaster, an alternative Prometheanism requires a turn away from power, production and profit towards a new relationship to necessity and the natural world. 

The myth of Prometheus has multiple incarnations proposing distinct ideologies of progress. 

A longing goodbye to 2009, the year I acknowledged the greatness of Nick Cave. (Not that Nick Cave, though it's also the year I fell in love with doubling.) Below is the video clip for what may be Cave's greatest song "Into My Arms." Try listening to it and not misting up.