"Vital materialists will thus try to linger in those moments during which they find themselves fascinated by objects, taking them as clues to the material vitality that they share with them. This sense of a strange and incomplete commonality with the out-side may induce vital materialists to treat nonhumans—animals, plants, earth, even artifacts and commodities—more carefully, more strategically, more ecologically. But how to develop this capacity for naivete? One tactic might be to revisit and become temporarily infected by discredited philosophies of nature, risking ‘the taint of superstition, animism, vitalism, anthropomorphishm, and other premodern attitudes.’"
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Jane Bennett,
Vital Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
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goodsoundsabound said:
The intertextual approach Bennet takes in order to further her points, broaden the discussion, is truly fascinating. i gotta get this book.
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