“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


Monday, January 2, 2012

Two Essays and Two Talks in Two Days

It's exhilarating, and doesn't leave much time for anything else except for gawking at the new Žižek cover (HT Graham Harman). It's yet another instance, perhaps the most extreme, of how he can't quite help being the wildman of cinema. Indeed, I wish he would play up to this a bit more and stop this magnum opus tomfoolery, which is only weighing him down. As someone just said, charmingly, there's more than one way to peel an apple, and you don't have to do magna opera if you don't feel like it.

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