“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


Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Rice Seminar on Catastrophe

We are talking about Eugene Thacker's In the Dust of This Planet. And Cormac McCarthy's The Road.  Jeffrey Kripal is presenting. Nice one. I'm wired that way I guess, although it was mega mega sad to read McCarthy's book today.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

We just read this in my first-year seminar "EcoMedia." There was a pattern of student attunement to McCarthy's _____ without ______ formula. "A sound without cognate"; "Blackness without depth or dimension." A vital formula indeed.

Unknown said...

We just read this in my first-year seminar "EcoMedia." There was a pattern of student attunement to McCarthy's _____ without ______ formula. "A sound without cognate"; "Blackness without depth or dimension." A vital formula indeed.