Day Nine: Vibrant Matter

Lords and Ladies Talking to Each Other, photo: author’s own, all rights reserved

Not only is the more-than-human world living ‘nature’, but also the physical matter (rock, soil, water, air), energy (light, heat) and natural laws (gravity, thermodynamics) that allow its existence.

It is not only the boundary between human and sentient animal, or human and living creature that I seek to question, but also the boundary between living and non-living. Jane Bennett, a philosopher who wrote Vibrant Matter…