'Ecosystem Service Commodities' - A New Imperial Ecology? Implications for Animist Immanent Ecologies, with Deleuze and Guattari

Who gives a chicken's fart about the Garden of Eden and rural tranquillity and improbable things like that?No one thinks about that stuff any more.No one believes in it.All we care about is the next pay packet, the next meal, the next gratification, the next party, the next football match, the next sensation. 1TRANSFORMATION In 1944, as the Nazi Reich was drawing its final breaths, the economic historian Karl Polanyi wrote in The Great Transformation that 'what we call land is an element of nature inextricably interwoven with man's sic institutions.To isolate it and form a market for it was perhaps the weirdest of all the undertakings of our ancestors'. 2He continued by noting that:1.