“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


Tuesday, October 2, 2012

A Reader Responds

On Levi's blog:

"If I am made what I am by my history — my past relations — is it still accurate to say that I am ‘independent’ of my relations? Clearly we are running up against different meanings of the word ‘independent.’ I would still BE without these relations but I wouldn’t be what I AM without them."

Ah well yes--that's the whole thing you see. OOO precisely doesn't think you are reducible to your history.

In my terms what you are is your to-come, your futurality. How you appear is your history. There is a profound rift between them.



1 comment:

Unknown said...

Aren't your expectations the bridge?