“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, August 22, 2011

Papering Over the Uncanny


When a friend of mine first visited Nepal, she was horrified by the earthquakes. Nothing could be clearer than the fact that what we think of as a solid support is actually shifting beneath us, a prime example not of solidity but of emptiness.

Never mind: here are some folks talking about how easy it is to ignore the Earth. HT Dirk Felleman.

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