“Absurd Resistance: Political Governance of Animals in Los Angeles”
community cats, who eat birds and other endangered species; and an attempt by an oil company to restore a wetlands belonging to Native Americans, so that the birds will come back. These absurdities take shape [...] Environmental Impact Reports slow what people want to accelerate, and accelerate what people wish to slow; a dispersed social media public sphere summons cloud coyotes and turns grasslands into astroturf; and [...] scientific models of hydrology, habituation, and cat reproduction disclose the truth but cannot find a space where they can have an effect. Are these forms of resistance, and if so, to what? Is their absurd