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The hero as bottle, a stringent reevaluation. I now propose the bottle as hero.
—Ursula K. Le Guin

In December 2021, Time Magazine announced that Elon Musk had been named Person of the Year(1). Standing on his pedestal, this hero expresses the paroxysm of the breathless race in which humanity seems to be engaged to escape the perils that his widely-shared vision of the world actively participates in worsening. Despite the current environmental upheavals, the idea of “progress” continues to be envisioned from technological innovations, expansionist impulses and epic tales through which humans …