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While humans continue to transform the planet through various means, it has been questioned whether or not it can be mastered, or even should be. From Foucault and Social Dialogue: Beyond Civilization, Chris Falzon writes:
Although we may struggle to domesticate and shape the world, the world can never be completely captured or wholly organized. It always resists and exceeds our grasp. In seeking to order the world, we inevitably come up against that which is other, that which eludes our categories and which is able to affect and shape us in turn. In other words, we inevitably engage in dialogue.