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The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either – but right through every human heart – and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. … Continue reading The line separating good and evil
When I recently shared this quote on the More than Human Facebook page someone commented that the author’s suggestion that we must “embrace the troubling wisdom of paradox” could do with “a bit of unpacking”. I wholeheartedly agree. The paradoxical dimensions of our experience as humans are not easy to embrace. As I hope to explain in … Continue reading The Wisdom of Paradox
It is with some trepidation and a great deal of relief that I’ve decided to open the shutters and let some sunlight into what has begun to feel like quite a stuffy academic blog: More Than Human is officially entering the fray of current UK political discourse. These feel like momentous times, and not only … Continue reading The pendulum swing towards a more explicit political critique
If you’re not telling your own story with your life, it means you’re telling someone else’s. Over the last few years I’ve been fortunate enough to bear witness to an epic journey some dear friends of mine have taken – travelling the length and breadth of Britain to record tales of uncivilised behaviour for a … Continue reading We The Uncivilised
Caught up in a mass of abstractions, our attention hypnotized by a host of human-made technologies that only reflect us back to ourselves, it is all too easy for us to forget our carnal inherence in a more-than-human matrix of sensations and sensibilities. Our bodies have formed themselves in delicate reciprocity with the manifold textures, … Continue reading The Silvatici and the Spell of the Sensuous