“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


Friday, September 9, 2011

Hyperobjects Liveblog 5

Okay, I've done 2600 words. A quick spin around campus revealed a stack of books, I think sent to me by Cambridge UP in payment for a book report. I put the books in a borrowed plastic bag and then I realized I didn't have wheels—the Prius is at the mender's. So I turned my exit into a brief constitutional. Now I'm back at the lab, as it were, in the humming center of the student union here, which is one of the places where I do quite a lot of writing.

Writing the whole book at once, as it were rhizomically, beginning from a number of starting points and seeing where things grow, is proving very conducive to getting this done.

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