“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


Saturday, November 24, 2012

Hey This Is a Nice OOO Idea

"One reason OOO is hard to accept for some people is also the reason why psychoanalysis or ecological awareness is hard to accept: what is found is a profound lack in the Other, the realization that “the Other does not exist”: there is no Nature, no deep background of meaning—what we took as real is really a projection. What we assumed to be real is just a manifestation of the as-structure."
From Realist Magic, which I'm proof reading.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

great passage indeed.. it feels very right(minded) to me... still, what I cannot really get my head around is the seeming contradiction that, on the one hand, "the Other does not exist" meaning, I guess, that I am (always already inside and made out) of Otherness, and, on the other hand, the idea that reality is like a box-within-box-within-box of abounding Otherness...
at any rate, I really look forward buying this book Tim