“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, August 18, 2011

Woodard on Process

I'm very slow to this series of posts, for nefarious reasons of my own: I'm doing an awful lot of writing, maybe too much. So here is a link to the first one in the series, Ben Woodard on process philosophy.

Ian Bogost has responded with a precis of Woodard's argument:

Ben argues that thinkers of process are stuck "in the twilight of becoming" and content to allow "becoming to be utilized as an escape hatch in argumentation."
This is pretty much my position. More soon. 

1 comment:

Bill Benzon said...

Didn't Wagner devote four whole operas to Twilightism? And Chuck Jones devoted a whole cartoon to Wagner.