“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


Thursday, June 2, 2011

Wilderness


An extraordinary post by Levi Bryant this evening leads me to rethink what I said in an interview with Peter Gratton last year, concerning the notion of wilderness.

Sometimes a piece of writing comes along that's just so impressive you have to open your mind to accommodate it.

More soon but in brief--I like this idea very much. One term you hear a lot in Buddhism, especially the esoteric sort, is spontaneity. The spontaneity of the natural state. It's perfectly possible to let your mind be wild. It's perfectly possible to contact Meillassoux's great outdoors. This spontaneity is what I associate to Levi's wilderness.

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