
New Materialisms
Why Theory
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The Civil War Is an Object That Has Key Moments
"Liveness is about being like a viewer in utter passivity where the object is doing it to you and that like be but these things exist in their own singularity," he says. "There's an implicit god that coordinates all the objects in in harmons his it's the implicit ontology of harmin i think so that's interesting" He also spends 20 pages analyzing why the battle of vicksburg is the key moment of the civil war rather than the battle of gettiesburg, she adds. 'i thought it was one of the more interesting parts of the book'
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