ESSAY TITLE: RETHINKING THE ANIMATE, REANIMATING THOUGHT 

1. Why do they say that “In the animic otology, beings do not simply occupy the world, they inhabit it” (page71)
2. How can we relate primacy of movement? ” As soon as a person moves, he or she becomes a line” ( page72)
3. “Whenever there is live, there is movement” Why did they say that the sun and the wind is alive? (Page73)
4. Can we fully understand the condition of being? (page 68)
5. What is logic of inversion and how can we apply it? (Page 68)
6. Why do they say that ” Life in the animic ontology is not an emnation but a generation of being, in a world that is not preordained but incipient, forever on the verge of the actual”?
7. Why did they say that ” The environment might then be better envisaged as a domain of entanglement”?
8. How does tangle affect the meshwork in animic onotology? (Page 71)
9. Why is the weather so important in animic ontology? (Page 73)
10. Why did they say that ” The way to know the world, is not to open oneself up to it but rather to “grasp” it within a grid of concepts and categories?” (Page 74-75)
11. What is the mesh network?
12. How can we apply the primacy of movement in a mesh network?
13. What can we learn from this chapter?
14. How can we apply it in our studio and upcoming project?
15. “Whenever there is live, there is movement” Is the river considered alive? Why is this point important?
16. Why do they say that ” In the animic ontology, by contract, what is unthinkable is the very idea that life is played out upon the inanimate surface of a read-made world.”
17. Why do they say that ‘Yet along with openness comes vulnerability” (Page 74)
18. What is animic cosmos? (Page 74)
19. What is network thinking and relational perspective? (Page 70)
20. Why do they say that life is continuous birth? What do they mean by that? ( Page 69)
21. Why do we need to rethink the animate and reanimate thoughts? ( essay title)
22. What is the outcome from this concept? What should we expect?

I’ve read the essay 3 times and i find it hard to write a summary about the chapter. It is hard to connect the what the author explains as a whole. I feel that there is a lot of hidden meanings in the essay. Please enlighten me 🙁

Key and recurring word in reading: Rethinking The Animate, Reanimating Thought

Animist| Animic Ontology |Animic perception of the world | Animisim |Animate

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