At Wired, Sterling discusses a post of Harman's on the Edinburgh UP speculative realism series. Speculative realism versus common sense is his admirable bass line.
“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
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Realism against Common Sense: Bruce Sterling, “Philosophy Fiction”
ecology, philosophy, culture, science
science fiction,
speculative realism
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