tingly ticklish thingification
when he
read it wait
for it he
wondered if that
was a thing
it is
it is not a thing in the New
Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition, 2005
looking for it he did find thiopental a drug used as a general anesthetic and hypnotic (reputedly) a truth serum
thi-open-tal
thiopental is a thing
2005 was eighteen years ago a lot
can happen
a
girl raped denied an abortion forcibly made to birth leaves the baby at a fire station
Googled thingification
in a roundabout way he did
find itfinding also verdinglichung
literally thingification “making into a thing” from Marxist philosophy the conversion of a subject into an
object as when a worker becomes a
commodity commodified commodeified he
was riffin
woud
love to have the letters to fill it in on a Scrabble board an blow his
competitors mind
closing his eyes ran with thing
thingies heard of
Anthropocene
lets
not doff our capscurtsey yet again admire ourselves in bright shiny mirrors of
self our lackluster dismal inability to not understandtruly stand under our place on the planet
were full of shit
philosopher Glenn Albrecht his book Earth Emotions
he
suggests replacing Anthropocene with Symbiocene hed
second it but likelymore likely multiplethousandthing
it an epoch characterised
in terms of social organisation “by human intelligence lets not get wayway ahead of ourselvespat
ourselves on the back that replicates the symbiotic
and mutually reinforcing life-reproducing forms and processes found in living systems
. . . such as the wood wide web.”
there is that
beats the pants off
thingification
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