“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, September 3, 2012

Completed

I seem to be on a little bit of a tear again. Put the citations in those 2 essays. It has to do with Dark Ecology. I finally got the shape of the thing sorted out, and what I wanted to say.

At present it's pretty nebulous in my mind, but definite. I've tried to write it twice, and I've chucked both attempts. They were too pieced together from other things.

But now it's making a whole lot more sense to me. This was after going to Australia and doing five quite different talks, which really helped to gel things.

That's how I like to use talks nowadays--to road test new stuff. So the upcoming talks are going to be with a view to putting Dark Ecology out there. Thanks people of Australia! You really sorted me out.

Going there has been absolutely excellent for me, twice. You can be sure to see there again, as often as possible--some plans are afoot at various places.



1 comment:

Henry Warwick said...

FYI - I linked out to you on my latest blog. How you do so many posts a day, I find amazing.

http://henrywarwick.com/blog/2012/09/04/start-of-a-new-semester/

cheers!