Erik Davis - Secret Earths

Human experience is being taken over by technological processes, but at the same time it is also being re-defined through a process of re-animism.

Re-animism can be defined by moving experience away from human-centrism to a relational experience with non-organic actors and processes.

Nascent populist movements are representative of this re-animism, including indigenous nationalism, the nature of existence of objects etc...

The study of the phenomenon of smart objects feeds into this new definition of existence.

Looking at re-animist technological factors from a human society perspective is different from a robot resembling a human or a rock having a spirit, but revealing the relationships between these can help define the new study of existence.