Progress stories ignore our vulnerability to Others. Thinking through self-containment (at any scale) - an essential element of progress literature - negates transformation through encounters and all patterns of confluence and influence.
An alternative narrative could be to acknowledge a perpetual state of precarity. A precarious world is a world without progress teleology. Agnostic about where we're going, we might then look for what has been ignored by the current hegemonic story.
We are surrounded by many world-making projects; human and not-human. And usually these overlap too. Instead of colonial histories, we must fill both history and future with these 'contamination traditions'.
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