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I first came to this book with the intention of simply lifting everything that I found to be authentically Smithian. I realize now that would be as impossible as separating Smith’s interests from each other, as if I could lift the occult instances from the film work, or his collections, etc. Indeed, there seems to me a definitive magical quality in all his doings, even the most scholarly. His awareness of the larger significance of images and patterns and their historical appearance (and ahistorical entitlements), creates significance in the least of his actions.

Jane Bennett argues that the stuff that surrounds us isn’t inert—it has a will of its own.

He later became an unexpected ally of the science establishment in the face of attacks by climate deniers and conspiracy theorists.