Vita Contemplativa: In Praise of Inactivity Craftmanship By Joseph Stannard * Joyce:

By Joseph Stannard * Joyce: After facing industry sexism and blacklists

Vicuña began creating “precarious works” and quipus in the mid 1960s in Chile

müssen die Barrieren

from birch broomsticks to the Tree of Life

She describes the life forms and relationships that make old-growth forests unique—from salamanders and micro-snails to plants that communicate through fungi—and reveals why human attempts to manage forests can never replicate nature’s sublime handiwork

Vita Contemplativa: In Praise of Inactivity Craftmanship By Joseph Stannard * Joyce:In our busy and hurried lives, we are losing the ability to be inactive. Human existence becomes fully absorbed by activity even leisure, treated as a respite from work, becomes part of the same logic. Intense life today means first of all more performance or more consumption. We have forgotten that it is precisely inactivity, which does not produce anything, that represents an intense and radiant form of life. For Byung Chul Han, inactivity