“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 15, 2011

States of Theory

The back story on the talk is that I'm road testing a major chunk of an essay I'm writing for a special issue of The International Social Science Journal. Fredric Jameson, Boris Groys, Sondip Mukherjee and Peter Murphy are writing pieces for it. My title for now is “Ladies and Gentlemen, We Have Just Exited Modernity.”

I find it most helpful to use talks as a place to road test stuff.

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