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This contribution shows how the Anthropocene is dominated by the logic of patriarchal capital, and describes alternative bio-logics based on care. The scientific method is shown to provide the logic that makes possible this domination. Objectivity and the mathematization of nature are given post-Heideggerian, ecofeminist analysis. The scientific method is assessed as carrying the force of performative worldview, and its role in contemporary ecodestruction is critiqued. That is, experiment sets up knowledge as quantification and the real as what can be quantified, thereby abjectifying nature into disposable resources available for appropriation by capital. “Phallogocapital” expresses this coincidence of patriarchy, science,…