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‘we are all bodies of water.
to think embodiment as watery belies the understanding of bodies that we have inherited from the dominant western metaphysical tradition. as watery, we experience ourselves less as isolated entities, and more as oceanic eddies […]. the space between ourselves and our others is at once as distant as the primeval sea, yet also closer than our own skin.’
neimanis, a. (2012) hydrofeminism: or, on becoming a body of water. sydney: waterloo press.
we are born from and through water, yet we are taught to forget our liquid languages. we describe smells and textures through quantities and ingredients, translating fluid experience into formulas. we spend a lifetime putting water on our skin, on our hair, without realizing that we were born wearing the sea.
this blog is me trying to remember what liquidity might sound like, by listening to cosmetics.
‘we are all bodies of water.
to think embodiment as watery belies the understanding of bodies that we have inherited from the dominant western metaphysical tradition. as watery, we experience ourselves less as isolated entities, and more as oceanic eddies […]. the space between ourselves and our others is at once as distant as the primeval sea, yet also closer than our own skin.’
neimanis, a. (2012) hydrofeminism: or, on becoming a body of water. sydney: waterloo press.
we are born from and through water, yet we are taught to forget our liquid languages. we describe smells and textures through quantities and ingredients, translating fluid experience into formulas. we spend a lifetime putting water on our skin, on our hair, without realizing that we were born wearing the sea.
this blog is me trying to remember what liquidity might sound like, by listening to cosmetics.