Morton suggests that we should consider "life as a subset of a vast quivering, movement itself as a subject of a deeper shimmying. To think the human without recourse to reactionary essentialism, to embrace other lifeforms and other humans in solidarity, would need to allow for the possibility of tables that can dance. Such thoughts are taboo in Western metaphysics and culture" (38)
see also Joanne Drucker's "levity" [needs note] or David Graeber's claims about consciousness in matter
or, of course, the Panpsychism reader
an "intrinsic motility of things" [...] "objects move all by themselves without requiring an external motive force" (48)
"standard-issue quantum theory wants to limit this disco to the things that exist at or below 10 [to the -17th power] centimeters in diameter" (49) though Morton argues that "[t]he quivering is now observable in tiny objects that are nevertheless far larger than the subatomic particles to whose scale such unruly behavior was restricted" (48)
see Nature 464 footnote on 195