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# 114
We Are Divided
Isabelle Stengers
The idea that diplomats today could help us articulate what divides us should not be abandoned. But it needs to be resituated in a new environment.
e-flux Journal
Posted: December 17, 2020
Category
Capitalism
Subjects
Climate change, Internationalism
# 36
Reclaiming Animism
Isabelle Stengers
Some people love to divide and classify, while others are bridge-makers—weaving relations that turn a divide into a living contrast, one whose power is to affect, to produce thinking and feeling.
But bridge-making is a situated practice. As a philosopher, I am situated: a daughter to a practice responsible for many divisions, but which may also be understood as a rather particular means of bridge-making. The mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead wrote that all Western…
e-flux Journal
Posted: July 1, 2012
Category
Philosophy, Nature & Ecology
Subjects
Animism, Science, The Occult & Mysticism