Vitalism


Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
Creative Evolution
Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age
Genetic Politics: From Eugenics to Genome
Chance in Evolution
The Limits of Matter: Chemistry, Mining, and Enlightenment (Synthesis)
The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction
Accidental Agents: Ecological Politics Beyond the Human (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)
A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin
Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead
Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology (Environmental Cultures)
Sexuality Education and New Materialism: Queer Things (Queer Studies and Education)
The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely
In Mendel's Mirror: Philosophical Reflections on Biology
Reinventing the Male Homosexual: The Rhetoric and Power of the Gay Gene
Gilles Deleuze
Signs imply ways of living, possibilities of existence, they are the symptoms of an overflowing (jaillissante) or exhausted (épuisée) life. But an artist cannot be content with an exhausted life, nor with a personal life. One does not write with one's ego, one's memory, and one's illnesses. In the act of writing there's an attempt to make life something more personal, to liberate life from what imprisons it...There is a profound link between signs, the event, life, and vitalism. It is the power ...more
Gilles Deleuze

David McCullough
Nothing lasts forever. The most unforseen circumstances will swamp you and baffle the wisest calculations. Only vitality and plenty of it helps you. Washington A. Roebling quoted by
David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

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