“Just as importantly, he is gathering evidence for U.S. judiciary bodies: evidence that the trash that ends up in the estuary originates from the United States. Ingeniously, he has planted microchips in plastic bottles so that the circuit of trash can be traced.”
Stern, Leslie. “A Garden or a Grave? The Canyonic Landscape of the Tijuana-San Diego Region.” In Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene, ed. by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan, and Heather Anne Swanson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. p. 23.
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Project Muse
“What is a city but: the gathering together of people in geographic proximity. In order to create: energy, synergy, vital communication created by
the closeness of bodies and the layering of history on top of history.”
Ali, Kazim. "A Walking Guide to the Heart of a City." Prairie Schooner 87, no. 4 (2013): 84.
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JSTOR
“The structural parallelism between the body–hands and subject–predicate relations provides additional support for the approach of ‘embodied cognition’, that is, the idea that our concepts are shaped by our bodies. Lakoff & Johnson (1999 : 22) have argued that ‘[h]uman concepts are not just reflections of an external reality, but they are crucially shaped by our bodies and brains, especially by our sensorimotor system’. This embodiment is manifested in metaphorical expressions, reasoning and the structure of philosophical ideas, inter alia.”
Meir, Irit, Carol A. Padden, Mark Aronoff, and Wendy Sandler. "Body as Subject." Journal of Linguistics 43, no. 3 (2007): 560. doi:10.1017/s0022226707004768.
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“A short description or characterization of the Cosmos from this standpoint would be that it consists of an infinite number of bodies each belonging to an infinite series and that of all these bodies everyone has some attributes in common with all the others, but not one is exactly alike any other.”
Ritter, William Emerson. The Probable Infinity of Nature and Life: Three Essays. Boston, MA: Gorham Press, 1918. p. 46.
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“She might say to the child: ‘You and I are natural bodies like the rocks and the clouds; but since we talk with each other, a thing which neither rocks nor clouds can do, we are particular kinds of natural bodies. When bodies stand in such relation as this to one another, we, as logicians, speak of them as being in the relation of genus and species.’ ”
Ritter, William Emerson. The Higher Usefulness of Science, and Other Essays. Boston, MA: Gorham Press, 1918. p. 115.
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“…Gravitation is a universal law of sustentation for bodies; while transformation is a universal law of the origin of bodies.
( 3 ) The dependence of living beings on chemical substances is only a special case of the general law of transformation and conservation; but the discovery of it merits inclusion in our list of science’s prime achievements because of its great importance to the problem of man’s dependence upon nature.”
Ritter, William Emerson. The Higher Usefulness of Science, and Other Essays. Boston, MA: Gorham Press, 1918. p. 41.
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“But—and here is the most vital fact of all—it is a question which can not be raised even, until after the transformations have been observed, nor can an answer of objective value be given unless the whole round of observed phenomena, the substances previous to transformation, the transformatory processes, and the new substances, be accepted at their face value, that is to say, at a value which is as near to ultimate truth as any truth whatever, connected with the phenomena.
The elemental constitution of bodies is an inference, always and solely, drawn from their observed corporeal attributes. And chemistry is the science which assumes the task of drawing, elaborating, and systematizing these inferences on the basis of the attributes.”
Ritter, William Emerson. An Organismal Theory of Consciousness. Boston, 1919: Gorham Press. pp. 31-32.
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“Since plants can live only in the lighted upper strata of the sea, it follows that deep-sea animals are either carnivores or detritus feeders, a population utterly dependent upon plant and animal production in the upper water layers and upon the ultimate sinking of dead bodies of these plants and animals to greater depths. Much of the surface production is broken down, however, by bacterial or autolytic action within the upper or intermediate layers and is thus lost to the dependent abyssal life.”
Sverdrup, H. U., Martin W. Johnson, and Richard Howell Fleming. The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry, and General Biology. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1942. p. 808.
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University of California Press E-Books
“Above Grace’s head, earlier looking out the night train window as the train rises to the thin white, celestial sphere, imaginary sphere where all celestial bodies appear to be projected. The Comanche flying punctures it at night though the body of the Comanche jets blue at once coursing seen.”
Scalapino, Leslie. "Floats Horse-floats or Horse-flows." The Brooklyn Rail, March 2007.
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The Brooklyn Rail
“Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human. As I said in my BBC Reith Lectures, ‘Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don’t feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence.’ That’s the essential human predicament in a nutshell.”
Ramachandran, V. S. The Tell-tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011.
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“INTIMATE
A soft unwashed
Star,
A busted play, a
Leggo,
At home.
MIND & BODY
Bodies of water,
States of mind.
Alternates state
The case
With equal force
On either hand.
Schools of thought,
Buckets of blood,
muddy roads.”
Perelman, Bob. “3 Noises.” Primer. Oakland, CA: This Press, 1981. p. 27.
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Internet Archive
“Once what we knew was only
and numbers became
It is numbers & gold & at 10th
& A you don’t
have to know it ever. Opening
words that show
Opening words that show that we
were once
the first to recognize
the immortality of numbered
bodies. And we are the masters
of hearing & saying
at the double edge of body &
breath”
Notley, Alice. “I the People.” Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2005. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008. p. 172.
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Poetry Foundation
“Zoom, tilt, pan and track: we now use these operations to interact with data spaces, models, objects and bodies.
To sum up: new media today can be understood as the mix between older cultural conventions for data representation, access and manipulation and newer conventions of data representation, access and manipulation.”
Manovich, Lev. "New Media from Borges to HTML." In The New Media Reader. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. p. 19.
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“Sheets of writing spread over a field
Rain washes away
Little gray boats painted along a gutter
Rain washes away
Naked bodies painted gray
Rain washes away
Bare trees painted red
Rain washes away”
Kaprow, Allan. “Raining.” Some Recent Happenings. New York, NY: Great Bear Pamphlets, 1966. p. 14.
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UbuWeb
“2nd evening: bodies dirtied with jam
bodies buried in mounds
at the sea edge
bodies cleaned by the tide
Notes to SOAP
1st morning Each person privately soils some article
and of his own clothing. This is essential, for
1st evening: it refers to one’s real experiences as an
infant.”
Kaprow, Allan. “Soap.” Some Recent Happenings. New York, NY: Great Bear Pamphlets, 1966. pp. 12-13.
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“And the very process of paying attention to this continuum is poised on the threshold of art performance.
I've spoken of breathing. Yet I could have mentioned the human circulatory system, or the effects of bodies touching, or the feeling of time passing.
Kaprow, Allan, and Jeff Kelley. “Performing Life.” Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1993. p. 196.
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University of California Press
“This, for instance, is what the medieval Piccolomini, one of Duhem's heroes, says of Ptolemy and his successors:
for these astronomers it was amply sufficient that their constructs save the appearances, that they allow for the reckoning of the movements of the heavenly bodies, their arrangements, and their place. Whether or not things really are as they envisage them— that question they leave to the philosophers of nature.4 ”
Cartwright, Nancy. How the Laws of Physics Lie. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2010.
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Oxford University Press
“Assuredly not. Feynman himself gives one reason why. ‘Electricity also exerts forces inversely as the square of the distance, this time between charges . . . ’8 It is not true that for any two bodies the force between them is given by the law of gravitation. Some bodies are charged bodies, and the force between them is not Gmm′/r2. Rather it is some resultant of this force with the electric force to which Feynman refers.”
Cartwright, Nancy. How the Laws of Physics Lie. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2010.
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Oxford University Press