I try to resist my temptation to suggest more possible avenues of reading to explore, each time I read one of your essays, but it seems I am succumbing once more! I am currently midway through Federico Campagna's Prophetic Culture: Recreation for Adolescents, a wonderful and strange set of reflections on "worlding" as a fundamental human activity and what happens when cosmological stories come unravelled. I have a hunch that his ideas might unsettle and enliven the conversation about "a world of many worlds" and what worlds (somehow) do to each other, which seems to have got rather stuck, at least in the corners of academia where you have been encountering it.
Ha! that looks like an incredible book. Possibly too incredible. I feel I am just coming to the point where I am able to cite Alf Hornborg who might have been the first person you encouraged me to read. Perhaps I am being too plodding. I am storing a lot of these up - I definitely have to read The Meat Paradox soon. Do keep suggesting.
I think how it seems to me right now is that if you talk about 'worlds' there are some things that aren't going to stand out; things which might stand out more if you talked about 'powers'.
Good of you to say so! This is all taking way too long to write but in the end I'm trying to say something about how deep uncertainty goes. Hope I actually get there!
That rabbits’ scrotum fact has been neatly filed away in my brain besides the 4-headed penis of the echidna.
I try to resist my temptation to suggest more possible avenues of reading to explore, each time I read one of your essays, but it seems I am succumbing once more! I am currently midway through Federico Campagna's Prophetic Culture: Recreation for Adolescents, a wonderful and strange set of reflections on "worlding" as a fundamental human activity and what happens when cosmological stories come unravelled. I have a hunch that his ideas might unsettle and enliven the conversation about "a world of many worlds" and what worlds (somehow) do to each other, which seems to have got rather stuck, at least in the corners of academia where you have been encountering it.
Ha! that looks like an incredible book. Possibly too incredible. I feel I am just coming to the point where I am able to cite Alf Hornborg who might have been the first person you encouraged me to read. Perhaps I am being too plodding. I am storing a lot of these up - I definitely have to read The Meat Paradox soon. Do keep suggesting.
I think how it seems to me right now is that if you talk about 'worlds' there are some things that aren't going to stand out; things which might stand out more if you talked about 'powers'.
Much to absorb here and to follow from here on. I enjoyed this very much.
Good of you to say so! This is all taking way too long to write but in the end I'm trying to say something about how deep uncertainty goes. Hope I actually get there!
We come at similar themes from different angles. Good to know this quest is not so unusual. Keep at it.
So reassuring to know there are people out there who agree with me - no, wait!