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Ways of Being Alive by Baptiste Morizot
Dan Ray says we must change our minds to save the world.
Baptiste Morizot is a respected professor of philosophy who howls, if not directly at the moon, then at least at wolves who might be howling at the moon. It’s this sort of unusual inter-species relationship that finds him behaving like a beast in a variety of ways as with muddied face, snow-soaked pants, and panting mouth, he chases the wild creatures through dark forests.
Morizot’s writing frequently depicts him engaging with the nonhuman world in dozens of rugged, adventurous, even mystical ways. So readers of Ways of Being Alive (2022) might be forgiven for occasionally imagining its author crawling on all fours, rooting at clods of earth like an eager bloodhound. Ways of Being Alive often conjures images of this sort – which in some contexts might hint at madness.
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