...just to reiterate, I'm not saying that nonhumans only make contact with humans in the fourth age. Clearly they've been in touch with humans in indigenous Australia, for instance, for millennia.
I'm saying that from within white Western modernity, announcing its end, nonhumans break through the cultural, political, epistemological and ontological barriers erected to keep them out, somewhere during the Anthropocene (1945+).
John Lilly's experiments with dolphins in the 50's and 60's are especially fascinating. He was a strict materialist, operating on the brains of live dolphins until, well, he took acid and then established some fascinating research labs in which communication was sought between dolphin and human. He also envisioned a swim-in lab, in which dolphins could come to interact with humans
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