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<h1>LIQUID | Rachel Armstrong</h1><span class="PRP$">My</span> <span class="JJ">reclaimed</span> <span class="NN">word</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">21st</span> <span class="NN">century</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="JJ">liquid</span> <span class="NNP">–</span> <span class="RB">specifically</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="NN">relationship</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">character</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">life</span> <span class="NN">–</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">counterpoint</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">machine</span> <span class="NN">metaphor</span> <span class=":">:</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">philosophical</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">scientific</span> <span class="NN">idea</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">whole</span> <span class="NN">universe</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">everything</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="MD">can</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="VBN">understood</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="NNS">mechanisms</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBN">composed</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">sum</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">fundamental</span> <span class="NNS">components</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="RB">hierarchically</span> <span class="VBN">organised</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">perform</span> <span class="NN">work</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">logical</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">predictable</span> <span class="NN">way</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">Dualism</span> <span class="NNP">Rene</span> <span class="NNP">Descartes</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Treatise</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNP">Man</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBD">described</span> <span class="JJ">conceptual</span> <span class="NNS">models</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">humans</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBD">were</span> <span class="VBN">made</span> <span class="IN">up</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">fundamental</span> <span class="NNS">elements</span> <span class="VBP">–</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">non-thinking</span> <span class="NN">body</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">thinking</span> <span class="NN">soul</span> <span class="NNP">–</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="MD">could</span> <span class="VB">exist</span> <span class="RB">independently</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="CD">one</span> <span class="DT">another</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">He</span> <span class="VBD">extracted</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">rational</span> <span class="NN">soul</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">body</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="NN">order</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">remove</span> <span class="DT">any</span> <span class="NN">element</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">mentality</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">In</span> <span class="DT">this</span> <span class="NN">way</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">geometrical</span> <span class="NN">nature</spa
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