THE AWFUL shadow of some unseen Power | |
Floats though unseen among us,—visiting | |
This various world with as inconstant wing | |
As summer winds that creep from flower to flower,— | |
Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower, | 5 |
It visits with inconstant glance | |
Each human heart and countenance; | |
Like hues and harmonies of evening,— | |
Like clouds in starlight widely spread,— | |
Like memory of music fled,— | 10 |
Like aught that for its grace may be | |
Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery. |
“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Hymn to Hyperobjects
It's almost a kind of inverted Platonism isn't it? Where the forms are real objects so massive and strange we can hardly see them. Time to break out the Shelley.
ecology, philosophy, culture, science
hyperobjects,
object oriented ontology,
Plato,
Shelley
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment