Morton: "Animal magnetism is Mesmer's term for a force that surrounds and penetrates lifeforms and acts in a nonlocal, telekinetic, telepathic, and hypnotic way" (53)
a "historical sequence" runs from "animal magnetism to hypnotism to psychoanalytic transference" and through to today's "mirror neurons"
"Kant's thought is a repression-sublimation of what he knew about Mesmer and Swedenborg"
"Kantian beauty is [...] something like agency or liveliness emanating from something like an inanimate being, a painting or a piece of music. But it has been restricted to just one place in the universe (the interface between the artwork and the human subject) and restricted within that to a kind of 'thinkfeel,' the experience of reasoning as such"