Materials: Objects: Environments Liveblog 6 (Stephen Muecke)

part of a dreaming from Central Australia
my nervous system has been kidnapped by Aboriginal Australians
part of an indigenous poetics: no one seeing the system steadily and seeing it whole
experiments in thinking with things

David Uniapon: “everything that exists has some life apart from itself” (well put), indigenous Australian philosopher
me on the excessive object
some people need porn to get off
we don’t have a terminology of love for our sacred rituals

bandicoots, gurra
Karora: thinking, desire
flashes that caused the bandicoots to emerge
broke through the crust of the Earth
filled with sweet dark juice of the honeysuckle
he cooks and eats some bandicoots
and then talking about the painting:
it flashes in your mind and urges you to move around a bit

Harman: bring back myth; Sloterdijk, not just western--enlightenment should have something to do with enlightening the mood

scholars still sending out the term “modern”

Harman: quasi- term of objects undermines the idea of nature

ancient-modern paintings are hyperobjects

Bergson: it’s repugnant to us that we might have to create a new way of thinking to account for a new object

Latour: against the materialist orthodoxy tends to treat things as if they’re inanimate all the time

animist attitude that risks sounding new agish

singing, dancing, writing are not communicate items but ecological events existing more spatially than temporally
spirits, dreams, fictional beings

how can you imagine the relation between a snail and the leaf it’s eating

water spirit as the most changeful spirit of all

Question: absence of subject–object in the Dreaming
what does it mean to occupy a world in which landscape is a sentient being?