“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


Monday, September 12, 2011

Hyperobjects Liveblog 12

I hit 13 000 words yesterday and decided to work on my essay for Continent. —the one called “objects as temporary autonomous zones.” I figured that sometimes a detour can be most refreshing, and I seem to be quite well ahead of my schedule.

It's always beneficial, I find, to give yourself a schedule that you know you can meet. So I tend to set the bar lower than I could. The book is humming long now, and I think I'll be able to write a significant amount more before I look at any notes, though this may have diminishing returns as I go. It will be interesting to see whether I break this self-imposed rule. There's almost enough of the basic ideas down for it not to matter too much to the smoothness—but not quite.

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