“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
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Tim, this paper is what first got me interested in your work -- as part of my PhD at the time on "creative practice and ambient modes of being". Recently, I've been listening to all of your iTunesU seminars. Thanks for making all of this available.
Not surprising, I think, that you got to the ecological thought via ambient poetics, since ambience is the palpability of the interconnectedness of existence - and in particular there's a certain notion of ambience we get from the avant-garde West and ancient East which is all about dissolving or diving through inside/outside, fore-ground/background, figure/ground, us/them etc.
Luke, I'm deeply touched by that.
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