“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, April 25, 2011

Shaviro's Anarchy


The “universe of things” is not a harmonious whole, but a wild anarchy of innumerable objects both withdrawing from and reaching out to one another.

From Steven's nice review of Prince of Networks.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Rather than a "universe of things".

A non-deterministic self emergent mesh. Scale invariant. Remarked by our brains as a turbulence in the sensual fluid.

I know this is to long to actually use in speech. I have been trying to shorten it for months.