Vital Materialism
Frequently gendered female, vital materialism is the belief that matter itself has vitality and a life, no matter how lifeless it may appear to be. In this way, objects and things are described as having agency. Part of the project is to put some pressure on human’s self-proclaimed uniqueness and consider the ways humans are affected by the things around them.
Lucretius was writing against this tradition when he translated into poetry a model for matter as having no agency, just a random tendency to swerve off course a little.
Lucretius was writing against this tradition when he translated into poetry a model for matter as having no agency, just a random tendency to swerve off course a little.
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