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Where the fungal era has been about venerating unknowable nonhuman maybe-intelligence and believing that hope can be dredged from ruin, the metabolic era is about submission, subsumption by the great enzyme, the desire for transformative annihilation.
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Kelly Pendergrast, WIRED, 14 July 2023
Not unlike visionaries and mystics, martyrs and saints, the narrator finds a path to liberation through self-erasure or subsumption in sublime experience.
—Saidiya Hartman, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
Buffalo Boy is both a lampooning and subsumption of the cowboy myth, recalibrating frontier notions of manhood.
—New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
This is due to the analogous use of subsumption in human behavior: human psychomotor behavior can be intuitively modeled as layered behaviors with incoming sensory inputs, where higher behavioral levels are able to subsume lower behaviors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Nov. 2020
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Kelly Pendergrast, WIRED, 14 July 2023
Not unlike visionaries and mystics, martyrs and saints, the narrator finds a path to liberation through self-erasure or subsumption in sublime experience.
—Saidiya Hartman, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
Buffalo Boy is both a lampooning and subsumption of the cowboy myth, recalibrating frontier notions of manhood.
—New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
This is due to the analogous use of subsumption in human behavior: human psychomotor behavior can be intuitively modeled as layered behaviors with incoming sensory inputs, where higher behavioral levels are able to subsume lower behaviors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Nov. 2020
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“Subsumption.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/subsumption. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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