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Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.
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Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings…
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A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events…
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Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing…
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No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is…
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Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And…
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The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of…
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For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples -…
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In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the…
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Does the human intellect, or "reason," really spring us free from our inherence in the depths of this wild proliferation of forms?…
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We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.
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Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment…
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but…
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Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.
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Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a…
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Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.
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In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a…
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I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have…
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I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it…
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The peculiar interest of magic squares and all lusus numerorum in general lies in the fact that they possess the charm of…
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In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the…
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Digital technology, you see, is not the villain here. It simply offers another dimension. I'm not sure if it's a farther remove…
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