The earth does not merely subside beneath the hammering of civiliza-

tions, it fascinates and converts the structures of experience, it murmurs

below and within the demotic of everyday life, speaking not only through

our farms and our bestiaries, but through all the surfaces we have pinned

down, all the technologies implicating its elemental support, all the materi-

alities that bind the life-world to a particular order of things.