“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


Friday, September 9, 2011

Hyperobjects Liveblog 2

Ah, I've discovered something already. This book wants to be written in an intimate, experiential style, in the manner of Alphonso Lingis.

I find it increasingly impossible to perform a metalinguistic speech act, since I truly believe that “there is no metalangauge” (Lacan). I just don't believe in the Santa Claus of going meta any more.

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