David Abram: I still don’t know what to think.

Sue Thomas
Nov 6 · 2 min read

Years ago I came across David Abram’s book ‘The Spell of the Sensuous’ and was intrigued and thrilled by his visionary approach to the natural world. In Technobiophilia: Nature and Cyberspace, I had to include his wonderful description of a brief eye contact with a condor, flying above him at the top of a mountain, where he felt himself “stripped naked by an alien gaze infinitely more lucid and precise than…

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Sue Thomas

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I write about nature, technology and life. Latest book 'Nature and Wellbeing in the Digital Age' http://amzn.to/2mv9TKk. www.suethomas.net

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A collection of ways to bring nature into your personal digital world — stories, tips, and experiments. The emphasis is on the practical: what we might do, how we might do it, and which places, materials, apps and designs would help us. Submissions welcome.

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