“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


Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Singularum Essay

“Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear.” I'm almost afraid of this essay. Sometimes I have no idea what it's going to say. It's certainly helping the book I'm writing along with it. Bobby George and Tom Sparrow opened the phenomenology spigot and all this stuff came pouring out. It's scary fun to write I tell you.

I'm in love with the hard won logic of Lingis: “When I ... I am not ... Rather ...” The way he makes you feel like you're in a surging world of weirdness.

1 comment:

ai said...

A companion piece to this? (The latter is also being reworked into a chapter in my forthcoming metaphysics manuscript.)