The suggestion that a crucial response to the unfolding damage of the Anthropocene might be to develop a feeling of solidarity with spoons is undeniably a little weird. Why, in an age of mass extinction, might we need to focus on feeling a deep and meaningful connection with a piece of cutlery? This, however, is exactly the project taken up in Timothy Morton's Humankind (2017), their book seeking to develop non-discriminate solidarity with non-human entities, of which cutlery is just one

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... . Morton has become one of the foremost ecological critics writing today, underpinning their work with Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) and its radical disruption of anthropocentric notions of being. In 1 Humankind, Morton takes their ontological approach to ecocriticism and applies it to Marxism, a largely anthropocentric mode of thought, looking to rehabilitate Marxist ideals into offering an ecological, non-anthropocentric way of existing in the world. For Morton, the anthropocentrism of Marxist thought is a 'bug' to be removed, 'not a feature.' Morton's 2