“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


Thursday, October 4, 2012

Revision

I'm revising an essay on environmental humanities today. Three reports. One says publish, the other publish with revision, the other says unpublishable!

That's fairly normal for me. I tend to push people with my writing so I'm good at getting books accepted--it's given that if you want to shell out for a book, you want to be pushed.

But for the exact same reason, essays are tricky.

The "revision" reader is evidently a Deleuzian, and I have a habit of pushing them at present.



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