“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, December 2, 2011

Funny Review

This is kind of funny: I just read a review of Ecology without Nature (from last year), where the author found fault with my “attempt[ing] arguments conducted in more than one register at once, arguments too often sealed wtih a witty one-liner in lieu of a well-reasoned conclusion.”

Heaven spare us from talking on more than one level at once! Pedants of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your audience!

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