DAVID ABRAM, BECOMING ANIMAL: AN EARTHLY COSMOLOGY | Are.na
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DAVID ABRAM, BECOMING ANIMAL: AN EARTHLY COSMOLOGY | Are.na
The instinctive rapport with an enigmatic cosmos at once both nourishing and dangerous lies at the ancient heart of all that we have come to call “the sacred.”
David Abram • Becoming Animal
When we open ourselves to the voices of the more-than-human world, this is always the result: a breaching and collapsing of the established borders of thought and feeling.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
For the largest part of our species’ existence, humans have negotiated relationships with every aspect of the sensuous surroundings, exchanging possibilities with every flapping form, with each textured surface and shivering entity that we happened to focus upon. All could speak, articulating in gesture and whistle and sigh a shifting web of meanin
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our animal senses, coevolved with the animate landscape, are still tuned to the many-voiced earth.
David Abram • Becoming Animal
‘A central question was: what if we were to really honour and acknowledge the fact that we are animals?’ he explains. ‘How would we think, or speak, about even the most ordinary, taken-for-granted aspect of the world, like shadows, or gravity, or houses, or the weather? So much of the language we’ve inherited is laden with otherworldly assumptions.... See more