Stories of stone
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Explores the life of stone, following its matter-energy as it confounds the boundary between organic and inorganic, art and nature, human and mineral. postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies (2010) 1, 56–63 doi:10.1057/pmed.2009.1; published online 9 February 2010 Reality is a single matter-energy undergoing phase transitions of various kinds y Rocks and winds, germs and words, are all different manifestations of this dynamic material reality, or, in other words, they all represent the different ways in which this single matter-energy expresses itself. Manuel De Landa, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History What could be less human than cold, unmoving stone? What could be less lithic than itinerant, adaptive humanity?
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