In Novacene: the Coming Age of Hyperintelligence, James Lovelock ultimately abandons the biotic constituents of the Gaian system, and with them, any remaining vestiges of connection to the autopoietic Gaia concept that Lynn Margulis independently explored in some speculative writings of her own. Now that Lovelock has pulled Gaia up into the aether of informatic bits, we may see more clearly what drove Margulis’s insistence on an autopoietic description.
Full essay on Alienocene: https://alienocene.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/bc.pdf
