“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, November 16, 2012

"The only emergency is the lack of emergency"

Thanks to the enowning blog I am reminded of this phrase, which I wish I'd remembered when I told the Madison crew about gigatons of carbon, Earth f***ing, etc:

"When Martin Heidegger, one of the architects of hermeneutics, pointed out decades ago how the 'only emergency is the lack of emergency', he was referring to these sort of alterations: The emergency is when they don't occur."


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