Infra-ordinary People | Cara Blue Adams
She wants readers to adopt and embody an ethos that makes room for the vitality of matter. In her view, it’s a useful attitude. “Without modes of enchantment, we might not have the energy or inspiration to enact ecological projects,” she writes. We might find it hard to “contest ugly and unjust modes of commercialization, or to respond generously t
... See moreMorgan Meis • The Philosopher Who Believes in Living Things
Extinction → Precarity: The philosophical construct of considering ‘life as precarious’ (Ann Tsing) foregrounds both life and death. It focuses on how human existence is deeply interdependent with other life and therefore necessitates the need for care of others, the need for being vulnerable to others and to put unpredictable encounters at the cen... See more
Medium • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics
“things of the world,” by which she means precisely the human-built world, in, as she put it, “stabilizing human life” — anchors of identity; but maybe not anchors but rather navigational beacons that help us map the self across time.)
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
To be human is to confuse a satisfying story with a meaningful one, and to mistake life for something huge with two legs. No: life is mobilized on a vastly larger scale, and the world is failing precisely because no novel can make the contest for the world seem as compelling as the struggles between a few lost people. But