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How to Do Nothing simply doesn't stop giving. Jenny Odell quotes David Abram's Becoming Animal: An Early Cosmology,
Do we really believe that the human imagination can sustain itself without being startled by other shapes of sentience?
Spent a little while with it and it got me wondering if we'd have dreamt up and realised air travel without birds to look at. Dived so deep into the ocean without discovering the richness of life in it. How most of our fantastical creatures simply build upon the fantastic creatures around us.
This comes right in the heels of her musing about sometimes adopting the perspectives of a couple of birds that frequent her home [1]. This builds upon it really well, emphasising the need to pay attention to the outside to nourish the inside.
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