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Mon, 16 May 2022 00:30:27
The Delicious Misery of the ‘Sad Banger’, by Hanif Abdurraqib
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Where are you? You are in your chest. Researchers “asked ten blindfolded adults to use a metal pointer to motion at ‘themselves.’ Most people indicated their upper torso area … ‘the torso is, so to speak, the great continent of the body, relative to which all other body parts are mere peninsulas. Where the torso goes, the body follows.’”
We inhabit systems designed as though people are things, solid objects, nouns, when in fact we are verbs, giant swirls of flows and processes. (that’s just biochemistry, biogeochemistry, culture, knowledge, learning, language).
–Dr. Elizabeth Sawin / Beth Sawin