Question #3

Is it delusional to speak of animism in relation to technology?

March 19, 2004 | 12:27 PM
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Now we're getting philosophical...
I used to think so, but then reading Neil Gaiman's American Gods, and listening to Grant Morrison talk about how everything is nature because nature created it, pretty much changed my mind on the subject.

Posted by: michael at March 19, 2004 01:49 PM

think Erik Davis wrote a book or two that goes into this space. Haven't read them though...

Posted by: Abe at March 19, 2004 07:42 PM

"The naive faith of the tyrants of megalopolis in the magic of their technology is nothing more than the escalation of witchcraft; it is the anthropocentric myth - that man is the nub of nature, and that all things are his. We are drunk with industrial mead."

- Alistair Graham

Posted by: Philip at March 20, 2004 08:13 PM

totally not delusional.

Posted by: james at April 7, 2004 04:30 PM

totally not delusional.

Posted by: james at April 7, 2004 04:31 PM