How much of our world is created by our consciousness and how much of the world creates our consciousness? Maybe it's a circular, iterative process, maybe the answer is both. So there's a repetitive aspect where the machining production of these goods is something that is starkly present to me... But at the same time, a chair is only a chair if I behave toward it as though it was a chair. And in that sense, my actions, my gestures that generate the world.
In this episode, Mike Gathers chats with Sascha Engel about the themes of his book, Breaking the Alphabet and the tyranny of the written word.
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