Cavendish, Woolf, and vitality
 

Henjian 51-2: "[B]oth Margaret Cavendish in the seventeenth century and Virginia Woolf in the twentieth century came to believe that vitality--animatedness--is pervasive, not in some spiritual sense but confined to autonomous particulars, in the endless interactions that mobilize and characterize phenomenological existence and all that it comprises. All matter, to paraphrase Cavendish, has life."
 
67: "Margaret Cavendish and Virginia Woolf both studied the livingness of life"
 
"[S]o-called objectivity [...] cannot capture it, since it consists not in data but in the ceaseless accumulating and releasing of patterns within and around phenomenological existence as a sociable, ever-changing whole"

> from Lyn Hejinian's Allegorical Moments: Call to the Everyday (2023)

> tagged with #animism, #pattern

> created Jan 9, 2025 at 8:31:52 PM


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