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"This returns us to the Deleuzian distinction between the hylomorphic and the morphogenetic—between form imposed from above and form emerging from below—and to a recognition of the important role matter plays in its own self-organization. Matter, in other words, is not inert but active: “We may now be in a position to think about the origin of form and structure, not as something imposed from the outside on an inert matter, not as a hierarchical command from above as in an assembly line, but as something that may come from within the materials, a form that we tease out of those materials as we allow them to have their say in the structures we create." ------- Active Matter, ed. by Skylar Tibbits (MIT Press, 2017), 22