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Yeah. Actancy (maybe actency is right?) is the only useful thing so far from Latour. In general these days, I'd rather approach that issue for a more religious perspective. Hinduism and Islam each offer different but more nuanced rubrics for considering the awareness of things.

But conatus sounds dirty, which is nice. I always like that in a word.

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but that last part 'addictive dharma' still places it in relation to humans or at least to a subject rather than just another type of being in the world.

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Indeed. A hungry ghost, perhaps.

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