DAVID ABRAM, BECOMING ANIMAL: AN EARTHLY COSMOLOGY | Are.na
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DAVID ABRAM, BECOMING ANIMAL: AN EARTHLY COSMOLOGY | Are.na
It implies that the creativity we find in ourselves has its correlation in the surrounding cosmos, and, too, that the relative stubbornness and solidity we associate with the things around us have their correlate in the weight and inertia of our own lives, in the density of our flesh and the intransigence of our habits. By implying that each mounta
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