“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, November 10, 2011
Lisa Summers on Solaris
In this short but pithy post my student Lisa talks about what distinguishes the planet Solaris: it is a strange blend of death and life, one and the same.
ecology, philosophy, culture, science
death drive,
Solaris
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