“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


Saturday, January 23, 2016

Michael Marder with a Peace Treaty between Humans and Plants

We've been parallel playing for a while and now he's ever so nicely endorsed Dark Ecology, which is making very similar arguments to him, up to and including his working with Irigaray. Look at this for example. A super choice part:

Human existence (Dasein), which Heidegger construed in terms of a clearing in being (Sein), replays the idea that a clearing in the forest is the place of spirit, liberated from the tight grip of matter.

Wow.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for this. Never bothered to actually read Marder before except for his LARB pieces. Really first class writer. Some of the same territory covered by Chris Stone, the aboriginals.