Action and passivity, for Morton

 
138: "we need a new theory of acting"
 
"We have a disastrous fear of passivity"
 
more on 139
 
"we can glimpse something very strange in [nonhuman] resonances: a whole new theory of action. This theory of action has to do with a highly necessary queering of the theistic categories of active versus passive" (179) (theistic because "[a]ctive and passive have to do with souls in bodies," 180)
 
180: "It is high time to retire the concepts active and passive as we commonly think them, and time to start rocking"
 
[see separate note on "rocking"]
> from Timothy Morton's Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (2017)

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