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being defined by the "negative space", seeing what is standard by first seeing what is not
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this reminded me of a slightly more scientific / modern / sophisticated sentiment to the one that was presented in the seeing with sunbeams text. Both challenge the limits of the senses and what mediums can convey them, specifically in regards to light
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if our act of mediation fails, the virusdies, or at least it slowly loses its viral power
Something about the phrasing of this seems to flip the framing of the pandemic that we normally think through on its head. It really emphasizes how much of a role we play in it just by virtue of existing as human beings. The pandemic is a hindrance on society, and yet, could not exist without society.
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We are the medium
restated and called back to throughout the text.
also references the repeated theme that science / medicine / covid cannot be seperated from all other factors of the human experience.
not only are we the medium for the pandemic, we are inseperable from it.
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His painting makes no claim to representwhat he sees. Itrather enacts, in line and colour, the birth of his vision, which, as it opensupon the cosmos, seems to explode like a shower of fireworks
is representing the sense of sight with realistic imagery and depictions any more honest than representing the experience of any other sense? any less honest? if Starry Night was an honest depiction of Van Gogh's experience why can't it be called realism?
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An interesting approach towards analyzing the senses and what it means to be experiencing them
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Cartesian
cartesian thinking views the mind as being seperate from the physical body.
replicating an experience is not the same as replicating an exact depiction
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Inthis world, stars hang in the sky but do not shine; lamps hang from ceilingsbut do not glow . The light is like a messenger that deli vers stars and lampsto the doors of your perception, but magically vanishes at the moment youlet them in
defining in terms of the negative space?
seems to emphasize the importance of context when it comes to perception
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Despiteappearances, tunicates are more closely related to us than any other invertebrate — they are ourstrange, spineless cousins
The things we chose to focus on (appearances, species, habits, etc) in order to differentiate "us from them" are not that significant, we are all much more connected and similar than e realize.
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reverence
latin for "stand in awe", to revere, to admire or think highly of, often religiously
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When humans encounter life-forms that are unfamiliar or strange to us, our instinct is often to distanceourselves from them
Can be interpreted outside of this context as social justice commentary.
What are ways we categorize:human vs nonhuman, races, genders, etc
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