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Animism is Normative Consciousness (Re-mixed, Re-musicked, and Re-released)

The Emerald

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The Choices We Make in the Name of Convenience

At the height of the age of reason, Coleridge and Wordsworth were reveling in an animate vision. World War I and World War II marked a profound loss for this animate vision. The church made nymphs illegal. Science made them irrelevant. If the world is already seen to be dead, then how can we possibly save it? Why would we save? if the world is dead, then we're dead too.

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