FLY DOWN
When getting down to the materiality of things, the unpredicted of crow, the way their tiny biochemical social systems that are in constant flux perform unexpectedly, we find our perception shifted to a different scale – not a scaling out or a scaling up, but a scaling in , as by viewing everything as an assemblage driven by a force, we discover a method of new materialism. (Bennet 2010) If inspected closely, we can find that we are “many all the way down, because we are wholes that are always less than the sum of their parts. We don’t just combine into multitudes, we contain multitudes, as any self-respecting stomach bacterium will tell you.” (Morton 2019 p.119) Similarly - a truth that holds strong even when looked at closely - viewing life on a strange scale of crawling and vying matter better captures “an alien quality of our own flesh” (Bennett 2010 p.113). One which, of course, brings us closer to Crow; because if it’s foreignness that moves the a...