“This vibrant matter is not the raw material for the creative activity of humans or God. It is my body, but also the bodies of Baltimore litter, Prometheus’s chains, and Darwin’s worms, as well as the not-quite-bodies of electricity, ingested food, and stem cells. … [M]y contention is that there is also public value in following the scent of a nonhuman, thingly power, the material agency of natural bodies and technological artifacts. …Derrida points to the intimacy between being and following: to be (anything, anyone) is always to be following (something, someone), always to be in response to call form something, however nonhuman it may be.”
- Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
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watch later. And also, that quote.
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