When I use the word enchantment, I mean a bunch of things...

I mean a sense of curiosity, imagination, delight, pleasure, wonder, and awe in the ways we sense ourselves, the world, and what’s possible.

I mean a more deeply embodied sensing of the life, animacies, and worlds around us that colonialism and capitalism seek to flatten and erase.

I mean a... See more

“to hone sensory receptivity to the marvelous specificity of things.” I would argue that this is another way of talking about learning to pay a certain kind of attention to the world. In so doing we may find, as Andrew Wyeth once commented about a work of Albrecht Dürer’s, that “the mundane, observed, became the romantic”— or, the enchanted.

what if we experience the world as disenchanted because, in part, enchantment is an effect of a certain kind of attention we bring to bear on the world and we are now generally habituated against this requisite quality of attention?