Volume 8, Issue 1, Spring 2011
Bruce D. Bromley
Pages 101-119
The “Other World” Is Here
On Images, Desire, and Climate Change
If how we envisage substances prepares the trajectory of our behavior towards them, art objects, substantial through the manner of their fashioning, can reorder
how we comport ourselves in a world that is not for us, to the extent that what we call by the name of “world” cannot be apprehended as the price paid for human
avarice when confronting a global plenitude sacrificed, always, to the scale of our need for it. To frustrate that desolation, we must enrich our view of things, and
this essay examines the thinking of Merleau-Ponty and Virginia Woolf at the service of that imperative.