BY CHIHIRO TATENO

Written by Chihiro Tateno A businessman in The Little Prince claims that he “owns the stars.” He counts the stars and writes the number of them on a small piece of paper. He then locks this paper in a drawer, believing it to be a matter of “great consequence.” One of the defining features of modernism has been the “enframing” of nature. Driven by technological and economic development, humanity has compulsively quantified the natural world, exploiting it as a source of energ