David Abram
Author
Pub. Date
c1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 326 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
[In this book, the author] draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of perception and excavates the sensual foundations of language, which - even at its most abstract - echoes the calls and cries of the earth.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
313, [2] p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A startling exploration of our human entanglement with the rest of nature. As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading through the biosphere make vividly evident the need for a metamorphosis in our relation to the living land. For too long we've inured ourselves to the wild intelligence of our flesh, taking our primary truths from technologies that hold the living world at a distance. This book subverts that distance,...
Publisher
Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (79 min.)) : sound, color
Language
English
Description
An inspired collaboration between filmmakers Emma Davie and Peter Mettler and radical writer and philosopher David Abram, this is an urgent and immersive audiovisual quest, forging a path into the places where humans and other animals meet. It is where humans pry open their senses to witness the so-called natural world, which in turn witnesses humans, prompting them to reflect on the very essence of what it means to inhabit their animal bodies.
