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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</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class="MD">could</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="RBR">more</span> <span class="RB">exactly</span> <span class="VBN">described</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">new</span> <span class="NNS">physics</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBD">reduced</span> <span class="DT">all</span> <span class="JJ">natural</span> <span class="NN">change</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">local</span> <span class="NN">motion</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">material</span> <span class="NNS">particles</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="NN">body</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBN">denuded</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">soul</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">mind</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBD">became</span> <span class="VBN">known</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Animal</span> <span class="NNP">Machine</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="(">(</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="NNP">Bête</span> <span class="NNP">Machine</span> <span class=")">)</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="CC">Yet</span> <span class="NNPS">Descartes</span> <span class="VBD">neglected</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">characterise</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">nature</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">soul</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="JJR">more</span> <span class="IN">than</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="JJS">barest</span> <span class="NNS">details</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">He</span> <span class="VBD">considered</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">mysterious</span> <span class="NN">substance</span> <span class="WRB">where</span> <span class="PDT">‘</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">animal</span> <span class="NNS">spirits</span> <span class="VBP">’</span> <span class="VBN">flowed</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">pineal</span> <span class="NN">gland</span> <span class="(">(</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">principle</span> <span class="NN">seat</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">soul</span> <span class=")">)</span> <span class="IN">through</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">network</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">vessels</span> <span class="(">(</span> <span class="NNS">neurons</span> <span class=")">)</span> <span class="IN">like</span> <span class="NN">air</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="RB">However</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBZ">Descartes</span> <span class="RB">never</span> <span class="VBN">developed</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">final</span> <span class="NN">theory</span> <span class="IN">about</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">relationship</span> <span class="IN">between</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">body</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">soul</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">This</span> <span class="RB">brilliantly</span> <span class="JJ">simple</span> <span class="NN">act</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">dualism</span> <span class="VBD">created</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">foundations</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">modernity</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBG">providing</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">framework</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="JJ">scientific</span> <span class="NNS">developments</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">technological</span> <span class="NNS">advancements</span> <span class="IN">during</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNP">Enlightenment</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="JJ">‘</span> <span class="NN">beauty</span> <span class="NN">’</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">machine</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBZ">represents</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">framework</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="NN">thinking</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">simultaneously</span> <span class="VBZ">embodies</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">technical</span> <span class="NN">system</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">It</span> <span class="RB">therefore</span> <span class="VBD">shaped</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">worldview</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBD">considered</span> <span class="NN">matter</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="JJ">inert</span> <span class="NN">–</span> <span class="IN">without</span> <span class="JJ">innate</span> <span class="NN">energy</span> <span class="NNS">–</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBN">required</span> <span class="NN">animation</span> <span class="IN">through</span> <span class="JJ">external</span> <span class="NNS">agencies</span> <span class="IN">if</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBD">was</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">act</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="RB">So</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">animate</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">machine</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">energy</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">process</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="NN">spirit</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="VBN">needed</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="JJ">[</span> <span class="NN">z</span> <span class="JJ">]</span> <span class="NNP">Objects</span> <span class="MD">must</span> <span class="VB">reconnect</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="NN">flow</span> <span class="IN">if</span> <span class="PRP">they</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="RB">lively</span> <span class="IN">–</span> <span class="PRP">they</span> <span class="VBP">need</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">relationship</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="NNS">liquids</span> <span class="NNS">–</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="PRP">we</span> <span class="VBP">have</span> <span class="VBN">denied</span> <span class="PRP">them</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">full</span> <span class="NN">range</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">these</span> <span class="NNS">abilities</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">z</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Flux</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="NNS">pre-Socrates</span> <span class="NN">philosopher</span> <span class="NNP">Heraclitus</span> <span class="RB">first</span> <span class="VBD">expressed</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">idea</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">reality</span> <span class="VBG">being</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="JJ">constant</span> <span class="NN">movement</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="PRP$">his</span> <span class="NN">adage</span> <span class="NNP">Panta</span> <span class="NNP">Rhei</span> <span class=":">:</span> <span class="NN">“</span> <span class="NN">everything</span> <span class="VBZ">flows</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">nothing</span> <span class="NN">stays.</span> <span class="NNP">”</span> <span class="NNP">Finally</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">over</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">course</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">20th</span> <span class="NN">century</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBD">was</span> <span class="RB">increasingly</span> <span class="JJ">understood</span> <span class="RB">again</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">world</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="VBN">situated</span> <span class="IN">within</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">condition</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">flux</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNS">Thinkers</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">innovators</span> <span class="VBP">have</span> <span class="VBN">responded</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">liquid</span> <span class="NNS">qualities</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">world</span> <span class="IN">through</span> <span class="JJ">significant</span> <span class="NNS">shifts</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="PRP$">our</span> <span class="NNS">ways</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">thinking</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">For</span> <span class="NN">example</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Ludwig</span> <span class="NNP">von</span> <span class="NNP">Bertalanffy</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class="JJ">s</span> <span class="NN">notion</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">general</span> <span class="NNS">systems</span> <span class="NN">theory</span> <span class="VBD">informed</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">field</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">cybernetics</span> <span class="VBP">–</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">scientific</span> <span class="NN">study</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">control</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">communication</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">animal</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">machine</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">Alfred</span> <span class="NNP">North</span> <span class="NNP">Whitehead</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class="JJ">s</span> <span class="NN">focus</span> <span class="IN">on</span> <span class="NN">process</span> <span class="VBN">placed</span> <span class="JJ">dynamic</span> <span class="NNS">events</span> <span class="IN">at</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">core</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">living</span> <span class="NN">phenomena</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNP">Timothy</span> <span class="NNP">Morton</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class="VBD">s</span> <span class="NN">search</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="VBG">designing</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="NN">metabolism</span> <span class="NN">–</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">generate</span> <span class="NNP">‘</span> <span class="NN">straightforward</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class="JJ">environmental</span> <span class="NNS">images</span> <span class="VBP">[</span> <span class="CD">1</span> <span class="JJ">]</span> <span class="NN">–</span> <span class="NNS">aims</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">bypass</span> <span class="NN">translation</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">processual</span> <span class="NNS">events</span> <span class="IN">through</span> <span class="NNS">modes</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">representation</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">In</span> <span class="DT">this</span> <span class="NN">realm</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">constant</span> <span class="NN">change</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">machine</span> <span class="NN">metaphor</span> <span class="VBZ">describes</span> <span class="NN">reality</span> <span class="RB">incompletely</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="RB">As</span> <span class="JJ">much</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="NNS">liquids</span> <span class="VBP">have</span> <span class="VBN">been</span> <span class="VBN">conjured</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="PRP$">our</span> <span class="NN">language</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="NN">attempt</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">find</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJR">better</span> <span class="JJ">metaphorical</span> <span class="NN">framework</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">characterise</span> <span class="JJ">‘</span> <span class="NN">life</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">progress</span> <span class="VBZ">has</span> <span class="VBN">been</span> <span class="JJ">rhetorical</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="JJ">liquids</span> <span class="PRP">themselves</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="VBN">imagined</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="RB">readily</span> <span class="VBN">applied</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="NNS">technologies</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNS">Fluids</span> <span class="MD">may</span> <span class="NN">power</span> <span class="NNS">machines</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VB">lubricate</span> <span class="PRP">them</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="VBN">consumed</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="PRP">them</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="RB">However</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">behaviour</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">liquids</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="RB">so</span> <span class="JJ">rich</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">complex</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">toolsets</span> <span class="PRP">we</span> <span class="VBP">possess</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">manipulate</span> <span class="PRP">them</span> <span class="VB">do</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="VB">offer</span> <span class="JJ">sufficient</span> <span class="NN">precision</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">rival</span> <span class="JJ">mechanical</span> <span class="NN">potency</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="WRB">How</span> <span class="MD">can</span> <span class="PRP">we</span> <span class="VB">think</span> <span class="IN">through</span> <span class="NNS">liquids</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="NNS">ways</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="RB">only</span> <span class="VB">describe</span> <span class="PRP$">our</span> <span class="JJ">present</span> <span class="NN">reality</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">but</span> <span class="RB">also</span> <span class="NN">conjure</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="NN">existence</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="NN">occult</span> <span class="NN">performativity</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">material</span> <span class="NN">realm</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">acts</span> <span class="IN">upon</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">present</span> <span class="RB">as</span> <span class="RB">well</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="NNS">helps</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">imagine</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VB">shape</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">future</span> <span class=".">?</span> <span class="NNP">Ever-changing</span> <span class="NNP">Conventionally</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">extraordinary</span> <span class="NNS">properties</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">liquids</span> <span class="VBP">have</span> <span class="VBN">provoked</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">sense</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">erasure</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">featurelessness</span> <span class="NN">monstrosity</span> <span class="NN">–</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">sense</span> <span class="PRP">they</span> <span class="VBP">exceed</span> <span class="PRP$">our</span> <span class="NN">capacity</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">rationalise</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VB">control</span> <span class="PRP">them</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="VBG">applying</span> <span class="PRP$">our</span> <span class="JJ">modern</span> <span class="NNS">perspectives</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">Liquid</span> <span class="VBZ">bodies</span> <span class="RB">continually</span> <span class="VB">rise</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">undulate</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">entangle</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">fall</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VB">exist</span> <span class="IN">within</span> <span class="NN">watery</span> <span class="NNS">landscapes</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">They</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="RB">often</span> <span class="RB">so</span> <span class="JJ">entangled</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NNS">surroundings</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="RB">almost</span> <span class="JJ">impossible</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">see</span> <span class="PRP">them</span> <span class=":">;</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="DT">neither</span> <span class="PRP$">our</span> <span class="JJ">natural</span> <span class="NNS">senses</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">nor</span> <span class="NNS">concepts</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="RB">fully</span> <span class="VB">convey</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="JJ">ever-changing</span> <span class="NN">nature</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="VBG">Defying</span> <span class="JJ">classical</span> <span class="NNS">conventions</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">organization</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">behaviour</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">liquid</span> <span class="NN">matter</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="RB">fundamentally</span> <span class="RB">lively</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">It</span> <span class="RB">also</span> <span class="RB">simultaneously</span> <span class="NNS">permeates</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="VBN">infiltrated</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="NNS">surroundings</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">Claude</span> <span class="JJ">Lévi-Strauss</span> <span class="NNS">regards</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">sea</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="JJ">uninspiring</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">while</span> <span class="NNP">Roland</span> <span class="NNP">Barthes</span> <span class="VBZ">views</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">ocean</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">non-signifying</span> <span class="NN">field</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">bears</span> <span class="DT">no</span> <span class="NN">message</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="CC">Yet</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Michel</span> <span class="NNP">Serres</span> <span class="VBZ">embraces</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">details</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">liquid</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="RB">specifically</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">subversive</span> <span class="NNP">“</span> <span class="JJ">nautical</span> <span class="NN">murmur</span> <span class="NN">”</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">sea</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="PRP">he</span> <span class="VBZ">regards</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">symptom</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="NN">disturbing</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">pervasive</span> <span class="NN">vitality</span> <span class=":">:</span> <span class="NN">“</span> <span class="PRP">It</span> <span class="VBZ">[</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">sea</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="IN">at</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">boundaries</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">physics</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">physics</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="VBN">bathed</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBZ">lies</span> <span class="IN">under</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">cuttings</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">all</span> <span class="NNS">phenomena</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NNP">Proteus</span> <span class="VBG">taking</span> <span class="IN">on</span> <span class="DT">any</span> <span class="NN">shape</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">matter</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">flesh</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">manifestations</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="NN">noise</span> <span class="NNP">—</span> <span class="NN">intermittence</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">turbulence</span> <span class="NNP">—</span> <span class="NN">quarrel</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">racket</span> <span class="NN">—</span> <span class="DT">this</span> <span class="NN">sea</span> <span class="NN">noise</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="VBG">originating</span> <span class="NN">rumour</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">murmuring</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">original</span> <span class="NN">hate.</span> <span class="NNP">”</span> <span class="VBZ">[</span> <span class="CD">2</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="NNP">Liquid</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="NN">anything</span> <span class="CC">but</span> <span class="JJ">banal</span> <span class=":">;</span> <span class="PRP">they</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="JJ">subversive</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBG">resisting</span> <span class="NN">control</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">atomization</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="RB">ultimately</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">mechanization</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP$">Their</span> <span class="JJ">fundamental</span> <span class="NN">unpredictability</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">unruly</span> <span class="NN">multi-potentiality</span> <span class="VBZ">evades</span> <span class="PRP$">our</span> <span class="NN">tendency</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">control</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VB">subordinate</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="JJ">human</span> <span class="NN">desire</span> <span class="NNP">–</span> <span class="RB">even</span> <span class="WRB">when</span> <span class="JJ">industrial</span> <span class="NNS">apparatuses</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="VBN">used</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="RB">Indeed</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="PRP">we</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="VBN">required</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="RB">continually</span> <span class="VB">negotiate</span> <span class="PRP$">our</span> <span class="NNS">terms</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">engagement</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="JJ">such</span> <span class="JJ">liquid</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VB">find</span> <span class="PRP">ourselves</span> <span class="RB">ill</span> <span class="VBD">equipped</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">quell</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="JJ">monstrous</span> <span class="NNS">transformations</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="VB">impose</span> <span class="NN">order</span> <span class="IN">upon</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="JJ">undifferentiated</span> <span class="NNS">expanses</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">Although</span> <span class="DT">these</span> <span class="JJ">rebellious</span> <span class="NNS">characteristics</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="JJ">palpable</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">go</span> <span class="IN">beyond</span> <span class="JJ">metaphorical</span> <span class="NN">rhetoric</span> <span class="VBZ">requires</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="JJ">material</span> <span class="NN">nature</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="JJ">‘</span> <span class="JJ">named.</span> <span class="NN">’</span> <span class="IN">For</span> <span class="NN">example</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="PRP">they</span> <span class="MD">may</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="VBN">recognised</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="NNS">fields</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">like</span> <span class="NNP">‘</span> <span class="NNS">badlands</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">’</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="VBN">reported</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="NNS">fishermen</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="WRB">where</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="JJ">difficult</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">navigate</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">water</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">Another</span> <span class="NN">example</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="NNS">interfaces</span> <span class=":">:</span> <span class="WRB">where</span> <span class="NN">oil</span> <span class="NNS">meets</span> <span class="NN">water</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">lifelike</span> <span class="NNS">patterns</span> <span class="NN">emerge</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="NN">reminiscent</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">jellyfish</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="NNS">worms</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">an</span> <span class="JJ">actual</span> <span class="NN">dialogue</span> <span class="MD">may</span> <span class="VB">begin</span> <span class="DT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">embraces</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">complexity</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">character</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">liquid</span> <span class="NN">realm</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">In</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="NN">age</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">instability</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="WRB">where</span> <span class="NN">matter</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="IN">at</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">edge</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">chaos</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">liquids</span> <span class="RB">persistently</span> <span class="VBP">respond</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">uncertain</span> <span class="NNS">terrains</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="VBG">exhibiting</span> <span class="JJ">dynamic</span> <span class="NNS">patterns</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">structures</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">Think</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">whirlpool</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="NN">tornado</span> <span class="WRB">where</span> <span class="NNS">repetitions</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">processes</span> <span class="IN">within</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">site</span> <span class="NN">confer</span> <span class="NN">persistence</span> <span class="IN">upon</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">structure</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="RB">rather</span> <span class="IN">than</span> <span class="VBG">being</span> <span class="JJ">obedient</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">absolute</span> <span class="NN">position</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="NN">configuration</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">atoms</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="JJ">operative</span> <span class="NNS">agents</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">this</span> <span class="NN">realm</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="JJ">‘</span> <span class="JJ">paradoxical</span> <span class="NN">’</span> <span class="NNS">objects</span> <span class="VBP">[</span> <span class="CD">3</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="VBN">made</span> <span class="IN">up</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">constant</span> <span class="NN">flow</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">matter</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">energy</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">These</span> <span class="NNS">structures</span> <span class="MD">can</span> <span class="VB">occur</span> <span class="IN">at</span> <span class="JJ">many</span> <span class="JJ">different</span> <span class="NNS">scales</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VB">become</span> <span class="RB">increasingly</span> <span class="JJ">complex</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="NN">time</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">They</span> <span class="VBP">do</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="RB">only</span> <span class="VB">act</span> <span class="RB">independently</span> <span class="CC">but</span> <span class="MD">can</span> <span class="RB">also</span> <span class="VB">collaborate</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBG">linking</span> <span class="RB">together</span> <span class="IN">like</span> <span class="NNS">hurricanes</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">form</span> <span class="RB">massively</span> <span class="JJ">distribute</span> <span class="NNS">hubs</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">activity</span> <span class="IN">across</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">surface</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">planet</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="JJ">Such</span> <span class="NNS">hyper-structures</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="RB">only</span> <span class="VB">form</span> <span class="NN">weather</span> <span class="NNS">fronts</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">but</span> <span class="RB">also</span> <span class="JJS">manifest</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="NNS">soils</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">forests</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="VBP">exist</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="JJ">many</span> <span class="NNS">niches</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="IN">at</span> <span class="JJ">multiple</span> <span class="NNS">scales</span> <span class="IN">through</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">metabolic</span> <span class="NN">activity</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">web</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">beings</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="RB">Collectively</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="PRP">they</span> <span class="VBP">contribute</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">active</span> <span class="NNS">forces</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">nature</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">Liquid</span> <span class="NN">life</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="NN">notion</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="JJ">liquid</span> <span class="NN">life</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="JJ">draws</span> <span class="NN">attention</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">alternative</span> <span class="NNS">pathways</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="JJ">self-organizing</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">self-sustaining</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNS">Liquids</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="NNP">‘</span> <span class="NN">act</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class="IN">through</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="JJ">own</span> <span class="NN">agency</span> <span class="MD">may</span> <span class="VB">open</span> <span class="RP">up</span> <span class="NNS">opportunities</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">work</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">natural</span> <span class="NN">realm</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="JJ">new</span> <span class="NNS">ways</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="VBG">thinking</span> <span class="RB">along</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="IN">through</span> <span class="NNS">liquids</span> <span class="NNP">–</span> <span class="CC">both</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">metaphor</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">technology</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">In</span> <span class="DT">this</span> <span class="NN">way</span> <span class="NNS">ideas</span> <span class="MD">can</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="VBN">tested</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBN">refined</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBD">developed</span> <span class="NNS">towards</span> <span class="JJ">particular</span> <span class="NNS">dreams</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">challenges</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">futures</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="JJ">Such</span> <span class="JJ">expanded</span> <span class="NNS">perspectives</span> <span class="RB">also</span> <span class="VBP">engage</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="JJ">alternative</span> <span class="NN">power</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">identity</span> <span class="NNS">relationships</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">move</span> <span class="NNS">towards</span> <span class="JJ">inclusive</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">horizontal</span> <span class="NNS">interrelations</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="JJ">consistent</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="JJ">ecological</span> <span class="NN">era</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="VBG">distributing</span> <span class="NN">agency</span> <span class="IN">through</span> <span class="JJ">continuous</span> <span class="NNS">media</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="RB">rather</span> <span class="IN">than</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">discrete</span> <span class="NNS">atoms</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">packets</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">‘</span> <span class="NN">information</span> <span class="NN">’</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">characterise</span> <span class="JJ">mechanistic</span> <span class="NNS">frameworks</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">This</span> <span class="NN">continuity</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="RB">therefore</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="VBN">bounded</span> <span class="IN">like</span> <span class="NNS">objects</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">but</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="VBN">expanded</span> <span class="IN">through</span> <span class="JJ">immanent</span> <span class="NNS">spaces</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">An</span> <span class="NN">example</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">work</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNP">Viktor</span> <span class="NNP">Schauberger</span> <span class="WP">who</span> <span class="VBD">regarded</span> <span class="NN">water</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="NN">organism</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">He</span> <span class="VBD">invented</span> <span class="NNS">apparatuses</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="VBG">enlivening</span> <span class="JJ">slow</span> <span class="NN">flowing</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">polluted</span> <span class="NN">water</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="VBG">inducing</span> <span class="NN">turbulence</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="VBD">made</span> <span class="NN">water</span> <span class="NN">livelier</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="JJ">new</span> <span class="NN">energy</span> <span class="VBN">provided</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">vortices</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="DT">these</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">water</span> <span class="MD">could</span> <span class="RB">also</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="VBN">used</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">perform</span> <span class="JJ">useful</span> <span class="NN">work</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">like</span> <span class="VBG">transporting</span> <span class="NN">lumber</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">At</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">same</span> <span class="NN">time</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">rivers</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">streams</span> <span class="VBD">were</span> <span class="VBN">revitalised</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="DT">these</span> <span class="NNS">technologies</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="JJ">Such</span> <span class="NNS">approaches</span> <span class="VBP">dilute</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">decentre</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VB">reduce</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">environmental</span> <span class="NN">impact</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">particular</span> <span class="NN">kind</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">human</span> <span class="NN">presence</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">construction</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">industrial</span> <span class="NNS">processes</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">It</span> <span class="RB">also</span> <span class="RB">critically</span> <span class="VBZ">proposes</span> <span class="NNS">notions</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">society</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">embrace</span> <span class="DT">all</span> <span class="NNS">humans</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">even</span> <span class="VBZ">includes</span> <span class="NNS">species</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">have</span> <span class="VBN">become</span> <span class="RB">so</span> <span class="JJ">intrinsic</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="PRP$">our</span> <span class="NN">biology</span> <span class="PRP">they</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="JJ">integral</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="PRP$">our</span> <span class="VBG">being</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">For</span> <span class="NN">example</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">bacterial</span> <span class="NNS">commensals</span> <span class="(">(</span> <span class="JJ">bacterial</span> <span class="NN">microbiome</span> <span class=")">)</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">symbionts</span> <span class="(">(</span> <span class="NNS">pets</span> <span class=")">)</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">even</span> <span class="VB">‘</span> <span class="VBG">living</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class="NNS">fossils</span> <span class="(">(</span> <span class="JJ">mitochondrial</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">viral</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">bacterial</span> <span class="NN">gene</span> <span class="NNS">sequences</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="NNP">‘</span> <span class="NN">junk</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class="NNP">DNA</span> <span class=")">)</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="JJ">fundamental</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="PRP$">our</span> <span class="NN">existence</span> <span class=":">;</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NN">diffusion</span> <span class="IN">within</span> <span class="PRP$">our</span> <span class="JJ">flesh</span> <span class="VBG">conferring</span> <span class="PRP">us</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="JJ">unique</span> <span class="NN">character</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">As</span> <span class="NNS">members</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="PRP$">our</span> <span class="JJ">‘</span> <span class="NN">fluid</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class="NNS">communities</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NNS">rights</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="(">(</span> <span class="JJ">potential</span> <span class=")">)</span> <span class="NNS">responsibilities</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="VBN">emphasised</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="NNS">notions</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">agency</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">modes</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">conversation</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="JJ">Such</span> <span class="NNS">considerations</span> <span class="VBP">invite</span> <span class="JJ">alternative</span> <span class="NNS">ideas</span> <span class="IN">about</span> <span class="NN">personhood</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">potential</span> <span class="NN">extension</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="NNS">chimpanzees</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">dolphins</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">machines</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">land</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">rivers</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">even</span> <span class="JJ">planet</span> <span class="NN">Earth</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">These</span> <span class="NNS">recognitions</span> <span class="MD">may</span> <span class="RB">also</span> <span class="VB">extend</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VBG">building</span> <span class="NNS">coalitions</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="(">(</span> <span class="JJ">environmental</span> <span class=")">)</span> <span class="NN">peace</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBP">include</span> <span class="NNS">plants</span> <span class="(">(</span> <span class="JJ">ancient</span> <span class="NNS">trees</span> <span class=")">)</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">insects</span> <span class="(">(</span> <span class="NNS">bees</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">other</span> <span class="NNS">pollinators</span> <span class=")">)</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">soil</span> <span class="NNS">organisms</span> <span class="(">(</span> <span class="NN">mycorrhiza</span> <span class=")">)</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">other</span> <span class="NNS">creatures</span> <span class="IN">upon</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="PRP$">our</span> <span class="NN">immediate</span> <span class="NN">existence</span> <span class="VBZ">depends</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">Of</span> <span class="NN">course</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">such</span> <span class="NNS">notions</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="VBN">woven</span> <span class="IN">throughout</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">cycles</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">life</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">death</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="MD">could</span> <span class="RB">potentially</span> <span class="VB">extend</span> <span class="RB">indefinitely</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">embrace</span> <span class="DT">every</span> <span class="VBG">being</span> <span class="IN">on</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">planet</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="RB">However</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">‘</span> <span class="VBD">lived</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class="NN">perspective</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">community</span> <span class="NNS">members</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="VBN">bestowed</span> <span class="NN">relevance</span> <span class="IN">through</span> <span class="JJ">anthropological</span> <span class="JJ">ethical</span> <span class="NNS">concerns</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">values</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="VBN">played</span> <span class="RP">out</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">construction</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">social</span> <span class="NNS">groupings</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="IN">at</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">heart</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">ecological</span> <span class="NN">change</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">An</span> <span class="JJ">‘</span> <span class="JJ">ecological</span> <span class="NN">’</span> <span class="NNS">ethics</span> <span class="RB">however</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="JJ">necessary</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">so</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">intimate</span> <span class="NNS">connections</span> <span class="IN">between</span> <span class="JJ">fluid</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NNS">habitats</span> <span class="MD">can</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="VBN">sorted</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBN">ordered</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBD">valued</span> <span class="VBG">according</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">requirements</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">character</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">particular</span> <span class="NNS">places</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NNS">communities</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="CC">Yet</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">these</span> <span class="NNS">groupings</span> <span class="MD">may</span> <span class="RB">no</span> <span class="RB">longer</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="JJ">recognizable</span> <span class="VBG">according</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="JJ">current</span> <span class="NNS">conventions</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">naming</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">classification</span> <span class="NN">–</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="JJ">other</span> <span class="NNS">words</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="VBD">z</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="JJ">ecological</span> <span class="NN">shifting</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="PRP$">our</span> <span class="NN">value</span> <span class="NNS">frameworks</span> <span class="MD">will</span> <span class="RB">inevitably</span> <span class="VB">produce</span> <span class="NNS">monsters</span> <span class="NNP">–</span> <span class="RB">namely</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">uncategorisable</span> <span class="NNS">beings</span> <span class="NN">z</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="JJ">Direct</span> <span class="NN">encounter</span> <span class="IN">between</span> <span class="JJ">liquid</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class="IN">Although</span> <span class="VBG">existing</span> <span class="NN">life</span> <span class="NNS">forms</span> <span class="MD">may</span> <span class="RB">already</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="VBN">read</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="JJ">liquid</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="PRP">they</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="RB">inevitably</span> <span class="RB">still</span> <span class="VBN">framed</span> <span class="IN">within</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">conventions</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNP">Animal</span> <span class="NNP">Machine</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="VBZ">invokes</span> <span class="NNS">discourses</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">efficiency</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">geometric</span> <span class="NN">perfection</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">hierarchies</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">determinism</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="TO">To</span> <span class="VB">circumvent</span> <span class="DT">these</span> <span class="NNS">biases</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="NN">apparatus</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="VBG">provoking</span> <span class="JJ">direct</span> <span class="NNS">encounters</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="JJ">liquid</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="VBN">needed</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">produce</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">unique</span> <span class="JJ">semiotic</span> <span class="NN">portrait</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">liquid</span> <span class="NN">life</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">corresponds</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">dynamics</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">living</span> <span class="NN">realm</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">This</span> <span class="MD">may</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="VBN">explored</span> <span class="IN">through</span> <span class="NNS">poetics</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="JJ">graphical</span> <span class="NNS">notations</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">–</span> <span class="RB">yet</span> <span class="DT">all</span> <span class="NNS">forms</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">representation</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">liquid</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="JJ">problematic</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="PRP">they</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="JJ">incomplete</span> <span class="NNP">–</span> <span class="VBG">enabling</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">liquid</span> <span class="NN">realm</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">‘</span> <span class="JJ">speak</span> <span class="NN">’</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="JJ">own</span> <span class="NNS">terms</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="JJ">preferable</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">An</span> <span class="NN">apparatus</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="PRP">I</span> <span class="VBP">have</span> <span class="VBN">been</span> <span class="VBG">working</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="IN">since</span> <span class="CD">2009</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNP">Bütschli</span> <span class="NNP">System</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBZ">arises</span> <span class="RB">spontaneously</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="VBG">intersecting</span> <span class="JJ">liquid</span> <span class="NNS">fields</span> <span class="VBP">–</span> <span class="JJ">olive</span> <span class="NN">oil</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">strong</span> <span class="(">(</span> <span class="CD">3M</span> <span class=")">)</span> <span class="NN">alkali</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">This</span> <span class="RB">uniquely</span> <span class="JJ">varied</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="RB">yet</span> <span class="JJ">predictable</span> <span class="NN">chemical</span> <span class="NN">recipe</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBZ">produces</span> <span class="JJ">lifelike</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="RB">spontaneously</span> <span class="VBP">move</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBP">show</span> <span class="NN">sensitivity</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NNS">surroundings</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">respond</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="DT">each</span> <span class="JJ">other</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="$">[</span> <span class="CD">4</span> <span class="IN">]</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="NN">strange</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">yet</span> <span class="RB">somewhat</span> <span class="JJ">familiar</span> <span class="NNS">images</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">symbols</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">behaviours</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">arise</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNP">Bütschli</span> <span class="NN">system</span> <span class="MD">may</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="VBN">read</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="JJ">recognisable</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">behaviours</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">arise</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">tensions</span> <span class="IN">between</span> <span class="VBG">interacting</span> <span class="NN">material</span> <span class="NNS">fields</span> <span class="IN">at</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">edge</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">chaos</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="CC">Yet</span> <span class="PRP">they</span> <span class="MD">can</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="VBN">engaged</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBN">shaped</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="JJ">physical</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">chemical</span> <span class="NNS">languages</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">For</span> <span class="NN">example</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBG">adjusting</span> <span class="JJ">external</span> <span class="NNS">factors</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="NN">alter</span> <span class="NN">surface</span> <span class="NN">tension</span> <span class="MD">can</span> <span class="VB">induce</span> <span class="JJ">specific</span> <span class="NNS">movements</span> <span class="IN">like</span> <span class="VBG">clustering</span> <span class=":">;</span> <span class="IN">while</span> <span class="VBG">changing</span> <span class="JJ">internal</span> <span class="NNS">factors</span> <span class="JJ">such</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="VBG">adding</span> <span class="JJ">salt</span> <span class="NNS">solutions</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">mixture</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBZ">enables</span> <span class="NNS">droplets</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">make</span> <span class="JJ">sculptural</span> <span class="NNS">formations</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="WRB">How</span> <span class="DT">these</span> <span class="NNS">outputs</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="VBN">read</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="VBN">interpreted</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="VBN">established</span> <span class="IN">through</span> <span class="NNS">juxtapositions</span> <span class="IN">against</span> <span class="JJ">multiple</span> <span class="NNS">disciplines</span> <span class="JJ">such</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="JJ">prose</span> <span class="NN">poetry</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">science</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">design</span> <span class="NNS">notations</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">A</span> <span class="JJ">human-scale</span> <span class="NN">example</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">this</span> <span class="NN">kind</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">experiment</span> <span class="VBD">was</span> <span class="VBN">held</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">performance</span> <span class="VBN">called</span> <span class="JJ">“</span> <span class="NNS">Temptations</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNP">Nonlinear</span> <span class="NNP">Ladder</span> <span class="NNP">”</span> <span class="VBD">[</span> <span class="CD">5</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="VBD">was</span> <span class="VBN">performed</span> <span class="IN">at</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNP">Palais</span> <span class="FW">de</span> <span class="NNP">Tokyo</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="NNP">April</span> <span class="CD">2016</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNP">Do</span> <span class="NNP">Disturb</span> <span class="NNP">Festival</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">An</span> <span class="NN">environment</span> <span class="VBD">was</span> <span class="VBN">constructed</span> <span class="VBG">using</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">black</span> <span class="NN">mirror</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">reflective</span> <span class="NN">metal</span> <span class="NN">disc</span> <span class="VBN">suspended</span> <span class="IN">above</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="VBD">generated</span> <span class="JJ">multiple</span> <span class="NNS">interfaces</span> <span class="IN">between</span> <span class="NN">ground</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">water</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">air</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">Circus</span> <span class="VBZ">artists</span> <span class="VBD">explored</span> <span class="DT">these</span> <span class="NNS">spaces</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBG">improvising</span> <span class="NNS">connections</span> <span class="IN">between</span> <span class="PRP">them</span> <span class="IN">while</span> <span class="VBG">using</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="JJ">liquid</span> <span class="NNS">apparatuses</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="NN">audience</span> <span class="VBD">was</span> <span class="VBN">invited</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">gaze</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">reflective</span> <span class="NNS">surfaces</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="RB">episodically</span> <span class="VBD">appeared</span> <span class="IN">through</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">performance</span> <span class="NN">space</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class=":">-</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="IN">if</span> <span class="PRP">they</span> <span class="VBD">were</span> <span class="VBG">telling</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">future</span> <span class=":">-</span> <span class="NN">bestow</span> <span class="NN">meaning</span> <span class="IN">on</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">images</span> <span class="PRP">they</span> <span class="VBD">observed</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">radical</span> <span class="JJ">human</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class="VBD">were</span> <span class="VBN">transfigured</span> <span class="IN">at</span> <span class="NNS">interfaces</span> <span class="WRB">where</span> <span class="PRP">they</span> <span class="VBD">acquired</span> <span class="JJ">imminent</span> <span class="NN">meaning</span> <span class="NN">–</span> <span class="VBG">becoming</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">language</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">flux</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="RB">Similarly</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Bütschli</span> <span class="NNS">droplets</span> <span class="RB">also</span> <span class="VBP">begin</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">reveal</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">world</span> <span class="IN">through</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">liquid</span> <span class="NN">perspective</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBG">conjuring</span> <span class="JJ">new</span> <span class="NNS">words</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">concepts</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">relationships</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="NN">existence</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="JJ">Such</span> <span class="NNS">notations</span> <span class="MD">may</span> <span class="VB">enable</span> <span class="PRP">us</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">inhabit</span> <span class="NNS">spaces</span> <span class="RBR">more</span> <span class="RB">ecologically</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBG">understanding</span> <span class="WRB">how</span> <span class="PRP">we</span> <span class="MD">may</span> <span class="VB">engage</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">infrastructures</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">fabrics</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="JJ">enable</span> <span class="NN">life</span> <span class="RB">rather</span> <span class="IN">than</span> <span class="VBG">building</span> <span class="JJ">mechanical</span> <span class="NNS">objects</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="NN">living</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP$">Our</span> <span class="NNS">apparatuses</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="NN">inhabitation</span> <span class="MD">may</span> <span class="VB">acquire</span> <span class="RB">increasingly</span> <span class="JJ">lifelike</span> <span class="NNS">characteristics</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">extend</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">realm</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">home</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">city</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">ecosphere</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="WRB">where</span> <span class="JJ">internal</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">external</span> <span class="NNS">spaces</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="VBN">engaged</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="JJ">meaningful</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">mutual</span> <span class="NN">conversation</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">For</span> <span class="NN">example</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NNP">z</span> <span class="VBD">]</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">house</span> <span class="MD">may</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="JJ">able</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">recycle</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="NN">water</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">metabolically</span> <span class="VB">transform</span> <span class="NN">waste</span> <span class="NNS">substances</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="JJ">useful</span> <span class="NNS">products</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">z</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">This</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">pursuit</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNP">“</span> <span class="NNP">Living</span> <span class="NNP">Architecture</span> <span class="NNP">”</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="CD">6</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NN">project</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="VBN">envisioned</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">next-generation</span> <span class="RB">selectively</span> <span class="JJ">programmable</span> <span class="NN">bioreactor</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="JJ">capable</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="VBG">extracting</span> <span class="JJ">valuable</span> <span class="NNS">resources</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="NN">sunlight</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">wastewater</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">air</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">then</span> <span class="VBZ">generates</span> <span class="NN">oxygen</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">proteins</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">biomass</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="CC">“</span> <span class="VBG">Living</span> <span class="NNP">Architecture</span> <span class="JJ">”</span> <span class="VBZ">uses</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">standard</span> <span class="NNS">principles</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">both</span> <span class="NN">photo-bioreactor</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">microbial</span> <span class="NN">fuel</span> <span class="NN">cell</span> <span class="NNS">technologies</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="VBN">adapted</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">work</span> <span class="RB">together</span> <span class="RB">synergistically</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">clean</span> <span class="NN">wastewater</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">generate</span> <span class="NN">oxygen</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VB">provide</span> <span class="JJ">electrical</span> <span class="NN">power</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">generate</span> <span class="JJ">useable</span> <span class="NN">biomass</span> <span class="(">(</span> <span class="NN">fertilizer</span> <span class=")">)</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="NNS">outputs</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">these</span> <span class="NNS">systems</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="RB">then</span> <span class="RB">metabolically</span> <span class="NNP">‘</span> <span class="VBD">programmed</span> <span class="VBN">’</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">synthetic</span> <span class="NN">bioreactor</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">generate</span> <span class="JJ">useful</span> <span class="JJ">organic</span> <span class="NNS">compounds</span> <span class="IN">like</span> <span class="NNS">sugars</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">oils</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">alcohols</span> <span class="VBP">[</span> <span class="CD">7</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">IMAGE</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="NNP">Simone</span> <span class="NNP">Ferracina</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="WRB">When</span> <span class="NN">life</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="VBN">considered</span> <span class="IN">through</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">liquid</span> <span class="NN">lens</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="RB">no</span> <span class="RBR">longer</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">deterministic</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">object-oriented</span> <span class="NN">machine</span> <span class="CC">but</span> <span class="JJ">soft</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">protean</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBD">integrated</span> <span class="IN">within</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">paradoxical</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">planetary-scale</span> <span class="NN">material</span> <span class="NN">condition</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="RB">unevenly</span> <span class="VBN">distributed</span> <span class="RB">spatially</span> <span class="CC">but</span> <span class="RB">temporally</span> <span class="JJ">continuous</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="PDT">[</span> <span class="NNP">THE</span> <span class="NNP">ITALICISED</span> <span class="NNP">TEXT</span> <span class="NNP">INDICATES</span> <span class="NNP">THE</span> <span class="NNP">PLACEMENT</span> <span class="IN">OF</span> <span class="NNP">THE</span> <span class="NNP">IMAGE</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Manifesto</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Liquid</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NN">life</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="JJ">uncertain</span> <span class="NN">realm</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="NNS">concepts</span> <span class="VBN">needed</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">realise</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="NN">potential</span> <span class="VBP">have</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="RB">yet</span> <span class="VBN">existed</span> <span class="IN">until</span> <span class="RB">now</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="NN">hypercomplexity</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">hyperobject-ness</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">liquid</span> <span class="NNS">terrains</span> <span class="VBZ">exceeds</span> <span class="PRP$">our</span> <span class="NN">ability</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">observe</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="VB">comprehend</span> <span class="PRP">them</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NN">totality</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="RB">Indeed</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="WP">what</span> <span class="PRP">we</span> <span class="RB">typically</span> <span class="VBP">recognise</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="NN">living</span> <span class="NNS">things</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="NNS">by-products</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">liquid</span> <span class="NNS">processes</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Liquid</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NN">life</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">worldview</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">A</span> <span class="NN">phantasmagoria</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">effects</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">disobedient</span> <span class="NNS">substances</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">evasive</span> <span class="NNS">strategies</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">dalliances</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">skirmishes</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">flirtations</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">addictions</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">quantum</span> <span class="NN">phenomena</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">unexpected</span> <span class="NNS">twists</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">sudden</span> <span class="NNS">turns</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">furtive</span> <span class="NNS">exchanges</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="RB">sly</span> <span class="NNS">manoeuvres</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">blind</span> <span class="NNS">alleys</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">exuberant</span> <span class="NNS">digressions</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">It</span> <span class="MD">can</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="VBN">reduced</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="JJ">simple</span> <span class="NNS">ciphers</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">process</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">substance</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">method</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="NN">technology</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">It</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="RBR">more</span> <span class="IN">than</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">set</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">particular</span> <span class="NNS">materials</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">comprise</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">recognizable</span> <span class="NN">body</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">It</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="RBR">more</span> <span class="IN">than</span> <span class="JJ">vital</span> <span class="NNS">processes</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="VBN">shaped</span> <span class="VBG">according</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="JJ">specific</span> <span class="NN">contexts</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">subjective</span> <span class="NNS">encounters</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="CC">Yet</span> <span class="PRP">we</span> <span class="VBP">recognise</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="NN">coherence</span> <span class="IN">through</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">lives</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">‘</span> <span class="NNS">beings</span> <span class="NN">’</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="VBP">remain</span> <span class="JJ">cogent</span> <span class="IN">despite</span> <span class="JJ">incalculable</span> <span class="JJ">persistent</span> <span class="NNS">changes</span> <span class="JJ">such</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="NNS">flows</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">ambiguities</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">transitional</span> <span class="NNS">states</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBG">tipping</span> <span class="NNS">points</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="VBG">bring</span> <span class="RB">about</span> <span class="JJ">radical</span> <span class="NN">transformation</span> <span class="IN">within</span> <span class="JJ">physical</span> <span class="NNS">systems</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Liquid</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NN">life</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">kind</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNP">‘</span> <span class="FW">metabolic</span> <span class="PRP$">weather</span> <span class="NN">’</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">It</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">dynamic</span> <span class="JJ">substrate</span> <span class=":">-</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="VB">[</span> <span class="JJ">i</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NN">hyperbody</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class=":">-</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">permeates</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">atmosphere</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">liquid</span> <span class="NNS">environments</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">soils</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNP">Earth</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class="NN">s</span> <span class="NN">crust</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="CC">‘</span> <span class="NNP">Metabolic</span> <span class="VBP">weather</span> <span class="JJ">’</span> <span class="NNS">refers</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="JJ">complex</span> <span class="NN">physical</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">chemical</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">even</span> <span class="JJ">biological</span> <span class="NNS">outcomes</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="VBN">provoked</span> <span class="WRB">when</span> <span class="NNS">fields</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">matter</span> <span class="IN">at</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">edge</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">chaos</span> <span class="NN">collide</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">It</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">vector</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">infection</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="NN">expression</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">recalcitrant</span> <span class="NN">materiality</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">principle</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="NN">ecopoiesis</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="VBZ">underpins</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">process</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">living</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">lifelike</span> <span class="NNS">events</span> <span class="NN">–</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">even</span> <span class="NN">life</span> <span class="PRP">itself</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">These</span> <span class="NN">life</span> <span class="NNS">forms</span> <span class="VBP">arise</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="NN">energy</span> <span class="NNS">gradients</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">density</span> <span class="NNS">currents</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBP">[</span> <span class="JJ">i</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NN">katabatic</span> <span class="VBZ">flows</span> <span class="VBP">[</span> <span class="JJ">i</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBZ">whirlwinds</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">dust</span> <span class="NNS">clouds</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">pollution</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">myriad</span> <span class="NNS">expressions</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">matter</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">detail</span> <span class="PRP$">our</span> <span class="(">(</span> <span class="JJ">earthy</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">liquid</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">gaseous</span> <span class=")">)</span> <span class="NNS">terrains</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Liquid</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NN">life</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="JJ">immortal</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="VBG">Arising</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="PRP$">our</span> <span class="JJ">unique</span> <span class="JJ">planetary</span> <span class="NNS">conditions</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="NNS">ingredients</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="RB">continually</span> <span class="JJ">re-incorporated</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="JJ">active</span> <span class="JJ">metabolic</span> <span class="NN">webs</span> <span class="IN">through</span> <span class="NNS">cycles</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">life</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">death</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="JJS">Most</span> <span class="JJ">deceased</span> <span class="NN">liquid</span> <span class="NN">matter</span> <span class="VBZ">lies</span> <span class="NN">quiescent</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="RB">patiently</span> <span class="VBG">waiting</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="NN">reanimation</span> <span class="IN">through</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">persistent</span> <span class="NN">metabolisms</span> <span class="IN">within</span> <span class="PRP$">our</span> <span class="NNS">soils</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Liquid</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NN">life</span> <span class="VBZ">exceeds</span> <span class="JJ">rhetoric</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP$">Its</span> <span class="NNS">concepts</span> <span class="MD">can</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="VBN">embodied</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">experimentally</span> <span class="VBD">tested</span> <span class="VBG">using</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">trans-disciplinary</span> <span class="NN">approach</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="VBZ">draws</span> <span class="IN">upon</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">range</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">conceptual</span> <span class="NNS">lenses</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">techniques</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">involve</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">liquid</span> <span class="NN">realm</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="JJ">own</span> <span class="JJ">‘</span> <span class="NN">voice</span> <span class="NNS">’</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">From</span> <span class="DT">these</span> <span class="NNS">perspectives</span> <span class="VBP">liquid</span> <span class="NNS">technologies</span> <span class="VBP">emerge</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="JJ">capable</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="VBG">generating</span> <span class="JJ">new</span> <span class="NNS">kinds</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">artefacts</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">like</span> <span class="NNP">Bütschli</span> <span class="NNS">droplets</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="JJ">liquid</span> <span class="NN">chemical</span> <span class="NNS">assemblages</span> <span class="JJ">capable</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="RB">surprisingly</span> <span class="JJ">lifelike</span> <span class="NNS">behaviours</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">These</span> <span class="NNS">agents</span> <span class="VBP">exceed</span> <span class="NN">rhetoric</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="PRP">they</span> <span class="VBP">possess</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="JJ">own</span> <span class="NN">agency</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">semiotics</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">choreographic</span> <span class="NNS">impulses</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="VBP">allow</span> <span class="PRP">us</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="NN">value</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VB">engage</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="NN">discourse</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="PRP">them</span> <span class="IN">on</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="NNS">terms</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="NN">difficulty</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">slippages</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="NN">meaning</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">volition</span> <span class="IN">between</span> <span class="VBG">participating</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class="VBZ">creates</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">possibility</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">en</span> <span class="VBG">evolving</span> <span class="JJ">poly-vocal</span> <span class="NNS">dialectics</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Liquid</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NN">life</span> <span class="NNS">provokes</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="JJ">expanded</span> <span class="NN">notion</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">consciousness</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP$">Its</span> <span class="JJ">‘</span> <span class="NN">thinking</span> <span class="NN">’</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">molecular</span> <span class="NN">sea</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">possibilities</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">resist</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">rapid</span> <span class="NN">decay</span> <span class="NNS">towards</span> <span class="JJ">thermodynamic</span> <span class="NN">equilibrium</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">In</span> <span class="DT">these</span> <span class="JJ">vital</span> <span class="NNS">moments</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBZ">indulges</span> <span class="DT">every</span> <span class="JJ">possible</span> <span class="NN">tactic</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">persist</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBG">acquiring</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">rich</span> <span class="NN">palette</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">natural</span> <span class="NNS">resources</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">food</span> <span class="NNS">sources</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">waste</span> <span class="NNS">materials</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">energy</span> <span class="NNS">fields</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">These</span> <span class="JJ">material</span> <span class="NNS">alliances</span> <span class="VBP">necessitate</span> <span class="NNS">decisions</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">do</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="VB">require</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">coordinating</span> <span class="NN">centre</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">like</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">brain</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Liquid</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="NNS">non-bodies</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">They</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="IN">without</span> <span class="JJ">formal</span> <span class="NNS">boundaries</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="RB">constantly</span> <span class="VBG">changing</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Liquid</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="JJ">paradoxical</span> <span class="NNS">structures</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">possess</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="JJ">own</span> <span class="NN">logic</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">Although</span> <span class="JJ">classical</span> <span class="NNS">laws</span> <span class="MD">may</span> <span class="VB">approximate</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NN">behaviour</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="PRP">they</span> <span class="MD">can</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="VB">predict</span> <span class="PRP">them</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">They</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="JJ">tangible</span> <span class="NNS">expressions</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">nonlinear</span> <span class="NN">material</span> <span class="NNS">systems</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="VBP">exist</span> <span class="IN">outside</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">current</span> <span class="NNS">frames</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">reference</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="PRP$">our</span> <span class="JJ">global</span> <span class="JJ">industrial</span> <span class="NN">culture</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="VBN">steeped</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNS">Aspects</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NN">existence</span> <span class="NN">stray</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">unconventional</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">liminal</span> <span class="NN">realms</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">auras</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">quantum</span> <span class="NNS">physics</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">ectoplasms</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">In</span> <span class="DT">these</span> <span class="NNS">realms</span> <span class="PRP">they</span> <span class="MD">can</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="VBN">appreciated</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="JJ">objective</span> <span class="NN">measurement</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">invite</span> <span class="JJ">subjective</span> <span class="NN">engagement</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">like</span> <span class="JJ">poetic</span> <span class="NNS">trysts</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP$">Their</span> <span class="JJ">diversionary</span> <span class="NNS">tactics</span> <span class="VBP">give</span> <span class="NN">rise</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="RB">very</span> <span class="VBZ">acts</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">life</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">such</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">capacity</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">heal</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VB">adapt</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">self-repair</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VB">empathize</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="VB">[</span> <span class="JJ">b</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Liquid</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="JJ">pluri-pontent</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">They</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="JJ">capable</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">many</span> <span class="NNS">acts</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">transformation</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">They</span> <span class="VBP">de-simplify</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">matter</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="VBG">being</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">body</span> <span class="IN">through</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="JJ">visceral</span> <span class="NNS">entanglements</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">While</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">bête</span> <span class="NN">machine</span> <span class="VBZ">depends</span> <span class="IN">on</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="JJ">abstracted</span> <span class="NN">understanding</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">anatomy</span> <span class="VBN">founded</span> <span class="IN">upon</span> <span class="NNS">generalizations</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">ideals</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">liquid</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class="VBP">resist</span> <span class="DT">these</span> <span class="NNS">tropes</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">Liquid</span> <span class="VBZ">bodies</span> <span class="VBZ">discuss</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">mode</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">existence</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="RB">constantly</span> <span class="VBG">changing</span> <span class="RB">–</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">cumulative</span> <span class="NNS">outcomes</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNP">‘</span> <span class="NN">error</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class="NNP">–</span> <span class="CC">but</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="RB">highly</span> <span class="VBN">choreographed</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">continuous</span> <span class="NN">spectrum</span> <span class="NN">stream</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">events</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">arise</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">physical</span> <span class="NNS">interactions</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">matter</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">They</span> <span class="VBP">internalize</span> <span class="JJ">other</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="NNS">manifolds</span> <span class="IN">within</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NN">substance</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VB">assert</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NN">identity</span> <span class="IN">through</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="JJ">environmental</span> <span class="NN">contexts</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="JJ">Such</span> <span class="NNS">entanglements</span> <span class="VBD">invoke</span> <span class="JJ">marginal</span> <span class="NNS">relations</span> <span class="IN">between</span> <span class="JJ">multiple</span> <span class="NNS">agencies</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBP">exceed</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">classical</span> <span class="NN">logic</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">objects</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">They</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="JJ">inseparable</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NN">context</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBP">offer</span> <span class="NNS">ways</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">thinking</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBG">experimenting</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">conventions</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="VBG">making</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBG">being</span> <span class="VBN">embodied</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Liquid</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class="VBP">invite</span> <span class="PRP">us</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">articulate</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">fuzziness</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">paradoxes</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">uncertainties</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">living</span> <span class="NN">realm</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">They</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="RB">still</span> <span class="RB">instantly</span> <span class="JJ">recognizable</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="MD">can</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="VBN">named</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="NN">tornado</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">cirrus</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">soil</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">embryo</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="NN">biofilm</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">These</span> <span class="NNS">contradictions</span> <span class="VBP">–</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">form</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">constancy</span> <span class="NNP">–</span> <span class="NN">encourage</span> <span class="JJ">alternative</span> <span class="NNS">readings</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="WRB">how</span> <span class="PRP">we</span> <span class="NN">order</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VB">sort</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">world</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="WP$">whose</span> <span class="JJ">main</span> <span class="NN">methodology</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="IN">through</span> <span class="VBG">relating</span> <span class="CD">one</span> <span class="NN">body</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="DT">another</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="RB">Indeed</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">protean</span> <span class="NN">liquid</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class="VBP">help</span> <span class="PRP">us</span> <span class="VBP">understand</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="IN">while</span> <span class="JJ">universalisms</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">averages</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">generalizations</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="JJ">useful</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="VBG">producing</span> <span class="NNS">maps</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="PRP$">our</span> <span class="VBG">being</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">world</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="PRP">they</span> <span class="VBP">neglect</span> <span class="JJ">specific</span> <span class="NNS">details</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="VBP">‘</span> <span class="VBG">bring</span> <span class="NN">forth</span> <span class="VBD">’</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">materiality</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">environment</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Liquid</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="JJ">political</span> <span class="NNS">agents</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">They</span> <span class="VBP">re-define</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">boundaries</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">conditions</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="NN">existence</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">context</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">dynamic</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">unruly</span> <span class="NNS">environments</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">They</span> <span class="VBP">propose</span> <span class="JJ">alternative</span> <span class="NNS">modes</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">living</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="RB">radically</span> <span class="VBN">transformed</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">monstrous</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">coherent</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">raw</span> <span class="NN">–</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">selectively</span> <span class="VBN">permeated</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="JJ">nurturing</span> <span class="NNS">media</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Liquid</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class="VBP">invite</span> <span class="PRP">us</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">understand</span> <span class="PRP$">our</span> <span class="VBG">being</span> <span class="IN">beyond</span> <span class="JJ">relational</span> <span class="NN">thinking</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">invent</span> <span class="NNS">monsters</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">defy</span> <span class="DT">all</span> <span class="VBG">existing</span> <span class="NNS">forms</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">categorization</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">make</span> <span class="JJ">possible</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">new</span> <span class="NN">kind</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">corporeality</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">They</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="WP">what</span> <span class="VBP">remain</span> <span class="WRB">when</span> <span class="JJ">mechanical</span> <span class="NNS">explanations</span> <span class="MD">can</span> <span class="RB">no</span> <span class="RBR">longer</span> <span class="NN">account</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">experiences</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="PRP">we</span> <span class="VBP">recognise</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="NN">‘</span> <span class="VBG">being</span> <span class="JJ">alive.</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="NN">“</span> <span class="NNP">Liquid</span> <span class="NN">life</span> <span class="NNS">arises</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="IN">out</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">soup</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">smog</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">scab</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">fire</span> <span class="NN">–</span> <span class="WRB">where</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">incandescent</span> <span class="VBZ">heavens</span> <span class="VBP">rain</span> <span class="JJ">molten</span> <span class="NN">rock</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">alkali</span> <span class="NNS">meets</span> <span class="NN">oil</span> <span class="VBP">–</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">choreography</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">primordial</span> <span class="JJ">metabolic</span> <span class="NNS">flames</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="VBP">Amidst</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="VBG">reducing</span> <span class="NN">atmosphere</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="VBG">choking</span> <span class="JJ">toxic</span> <span class="NNS">gases</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="JJ">coming-into-being</span> <span class="JJ">draws</span> <span class="RB">momentarily</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="NN">focus</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">recedes</span> <span class="RB">again</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="JJ">unfathomable</span> <span class="NN">darkness</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNP">Hadean</span> <span class="NN">epoch</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="VBN">reincarnated</span> <span class="RB">here</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">It</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="VBN">drenched</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="NN">thick</span> <span class="NN">gas</span> <span class="NN">clouds</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">unweathered</span> <span class="NNS">dusts</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">pungent</span> <span class="NNS">vapours</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="VBP">obfuscate</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">light</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="VBG">insulating</span> <span class="NN">blanket</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">gaseous</span> <span class="NNS">poisons</span> <span class="VBZ">protects</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">land</span> <span class="IN">against</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">cruel</span> <span class="NN">stare</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">ultraviolet</span> <span class="NNS">rays</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBG">ionizing</span> <span class="NN">space</span> <span class="NN">radiation</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="VBP">spite</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNP">Earth</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class="VBD">s</span> <span class="NN">surface</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">Out</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">these</span> <span class="JJ">volatile</span> <span class="JJ">caustic</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">succession</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">chemical</span> <span class="NNS">ghosts</span> <span class="VBZ">haunts</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">heavy</span> <span class="NN">atmosphere</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="RB">Here</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">imaginary</span> <span class="NNS">figures</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">like</span> <span class="DT">those</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">appear</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">fevered</span> <span class="NN">condition</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">split</span> <span class="NN">faint</span> <span class="NN">light</span> <span class="RB">around</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">They</span> <span class="VBP">wander</span> <span class="IN">among</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">auras</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">turbulent</span> <span class="NNS">interfaces</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBG">thickening</span> <span class="NNS">densities</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">matter</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">scum</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">crust</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">Over</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">course</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="PDT">half</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="CD">billion</span> <span class="NNS">years</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">sudden</span> <span class="NN">ectoplasms</span> <span class="NN">spew</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="JJ">successive</span> <span class="NNS">acts</span> <span class="IN">over</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">darkened</span> <span class="NN">theatre</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">planet</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">Charged</span> <span class="NNS">skies</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBN">enlivened</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">ionic</span> <span class="NN">electricity</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">fluids</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">periodically</span> <span class="JJ">lit</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="NN">photon</span> <span class="NNS">cuts</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">strike</span> <span class="NNS">blows</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">ground</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">begin</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">process</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">chemical</span> <span class="NN">evolution</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="VBG">Dancing</span> <span class="IN">under</span> <span class="JJ">ionic</span> <span class="NNS">winds</span> <span class="JJ">electric</span> <span class="NNS">storms</span> <span class="VBP">scratch</span> <span class="IN">at</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">Earth</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBD">charged</span> <span class="NNS">tendrils</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">matter</span> <span class="VBP">stand</span> <span class="IN">on</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NN">end</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">Vulgar</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="VBG">becoming</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">blubber</span> <span class="NNS">slobbers</span> <span class="IN">on</span> <span class="NN">biomass</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="NN">carbohydrate</span> <span class="NNS">teeth</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBG">drooling</span> <span class="NNS">enzymes</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">digest</span> <span class="NN">nothing</span> <span class="CC">but</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="JJ">own</span> <span class="NN">bite</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">Energetically</span> <span class="NN">incontinent</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBZ">acquires</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">cold</span> <span class="NN">metabolism</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">watery</span> <span class="NN">heart</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="VBG">Expanding</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBG">contacting</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBZ">starts</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">pump</span> <span class="JJ">universal</span> <span class="NN">solvent</span> <span class="IN">through</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="JJ">liquid</span> <span class="NNS">eyes</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBG">lensing</span> <span class="JJ">errant</span> <span class="NN">light</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="JJ">dark</span> <span class="NNS">thoughts</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">Mindless</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="RB">yet</span> <span class="RB">finely</span> <span class="VBN">tuned</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="NN">context</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBZ">wriggles</span> <span class="IN">upon</span> <span class="NN">time</span> <span class="JJ">’</span> <span class="NN">s</span> <span class="NN">compost</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBG">chewing</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBG">chewing</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="NN">boneless</span> <span class="NN">jaws</span> <span class="IN">on</span> <span class="NN">nothing</span> <span class="CC">but</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">agents</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">death</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">In</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="JJ">structural</span> <span class="NN">disobedience</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">misshapen</span> <span class="NN">mass</span> <span class="RB">steadily</span> <span class="VBZ">grows</span> <span class="JJR">more</span> <span class="JJ">organized</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">reluctant</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">succumb</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">decay</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="VBG">Patterning</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">air</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="NNS">fingers</span> <span class="VBP">extend</span> <span class="IN">like</span> <span class="NNS">claws</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBG">obstructing</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="NN">passage</span> <span class="IN">between</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">poles</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">oblivion</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="VBG">Caressing</span> <span class="PRP">itself</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="JJ">gratuitous</span> <span class="NNS">acts</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">procreation</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">daub</span> <span class="VBZ">offers</span> <span class="NN">contempt</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">forces</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">disorder</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBZ">crawls</span> <span class="RB">steadily</span> <span class="NNS">towards</span> <span class="VBP">being.</span> <span class="NNP">”</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NNS">footnotes</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="CD">1.Morton</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Timothy</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="NNS">Hyperobjects</span> <span class=":">:</span> <span class="NN">philosophy</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">ecology</span> <span class="IN">after</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">end</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">world</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Minneapolis</span> <span class=":">:</span> <span class="NNP">University</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNP">Minnesota</span> <span class="NNP">Press</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CD">2014</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="CD">2.Serres</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Michael</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Genesis</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">Ann</span> <span class="NNP">Arbor</span> <span class=":">:</span> <span class="NNP">Univ</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNP">Michigan</span> <span class="NNP">Press</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CD">1996</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="CD">14</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="CD">3.Also</span> <span class="VBD">termed</span> <span class="NNP">‘</span> <span class="JJ">dissipative</span> <span class="NNS">structures</span> <span class="VBN">’</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="NNP">Ilya</span> <span class="NNP">Prigogine</span> <span class="CD">4.Armstrong</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Rachel</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="JJ">Vibrant</span> <span class="NNP">Architecture</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">Matter</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NNP">CoDesigner</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNP">Living</span> <span class="NNP">Structures</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">De</span> <span class="NNP">Gruyter</span> <span class="NNP">Open</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CD">2015</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="CD">5.A</span> <span class="NN">collaboration</span> <span class="IN">between</span> <span class="NNP">Rachel</span> <span class="NNP">Armstrong</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Professor</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNP">Experimental</span> <span class="NNP">Architecture</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Newcastle</span> <span class="NNP">University</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Rolf</span> <span class="NNP">Hughes</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Professor</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNP">Artistic</span> <span class="NNP">Research</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Stockholm</span> <span class="NNP">University</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNP">Arts</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Olle</span> <span class="NNP">Sandberg</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Director</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Cirkör</span> <span class="NNP">LAB</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">circus</span> <span class="NNS">artists</span> <span class="NNP">Methinee</span> <span class="NNP">Wongtrakoon</span> <span class="(">(</span> <span class="NN">contortionist</span> <span class=")">)</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNP">Alexander</span> <span class="NNP">Dam</span> <span class="(">(</span> <span class="NN">acrobat</span> <span class=")">)</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="JJ">technical</span> <span class="NN">rigging</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="NNP">Joel</span> <span class="NNP">Jedström</span> <span class="CD">6.The</span> <span class="NNP">Living</span> <span class="NNP">Architecture</span> <span class="NN">project</span> <span class="VBD">received</span> <span class="NN">funding</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNP">European</span> <span class="NNP">Union</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class="VBD">s</span> <span class="NNP">Horizon</span> <span class="CD">2020</span> <span class="NNP">Research</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNP">Innovation</span> <span class="NNP">Programme</span> <span class="IN">under</span> <span class="NNP">Grant</span> <span class="NNP">Agreement</span> <span class="RB">no</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="CD">686585</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">It</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="VBN">made</span> <span class="JJ">possible</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">collaboration</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">experts</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">universities</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNP">Newcastle</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">UK</span> <span class=":">;</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNP">West</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNP">England</span> <span class="(">(</span> <span class="NNP">UWE</span> <span class="NNP">Bristol</span> <span class=")">)</span> <span class=":">;</span> <span class="NNP">Trento</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Italy</span> <span class=":">;</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">Spanish</span> <span class="NNP">National</span> <span class="NNP">Research</span> <span class="NNP">Council</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="NNP">Madrid</span> <span class=":">;</span> <span class="NNP">LIQUIFER</span> <span class="NNPS">Systems</span> <span class="NNP">Group</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Vienna</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Austria</span> <span class=":">;</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNP">Explora</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Venice</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Italy</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBD">began</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="NNP">April</span> <span class="CD">2016</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBZ">runs</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="NNP">April</span> <span class="CD">2019</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="CD">7.</span> <span class="JJ">”</span> <span class="NNP">Living</span> <span class="NNP">Architecture</span> <span class="NNP">LIAR</span> <span class="NNP">–</span> <span class="VB">transform</span> <span class="PRP$">our</span> <span class="NNS">habitats</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="JJ">inert</span> <span class="NNS">spaces</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="JJ">programmable</span> <span class="NNS">sites</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="''">''</span> <span class="VBG">Living</span> <span class="NNP">Architecture</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="CD">2016</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="VBD">Accessed</span> <span class="NNP">September</span> <span class="CD">16</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CD">2017.</span> <span class="NN">http</span> <span class=":">:</span> <span class="JJ">//livingarchitecture-h2020.eu/</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNS">References</span> <span class="NNP">Armstrong</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Rachel</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="JJ">Vibrant</span> <span class="NNP">Architecture</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">Matter</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NNP">CoDesigner</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNP">Living</span> <span class="NNP">Structures</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="JJ">i</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NNP">De</span> <span class="NNP">Gruyter</span> <span class="NNP">Open</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CD">2015</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="``">``</span> <span class="JJ">Living</span> <span class="NN">Architecture</span> <span class="NNP">LIAR</span> <span class="NNP">–</span> <span class="VB">transform</span> <span class="PRP$">our</span> <span class="NNS">habitats</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="JJ">inert</span> <span class="NNS">spaces</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="JJ">programmable</span> <span class="NNS">sites</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="''">''</span> <span class="VBG">Living</span> <span class="NNP">Architecture</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="CD">2016</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="VBD">Accessed</span> <span class="NNP">September</span> <span class="CD">16</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CD">2017.</span> <span class="NN">http</span> <span class=":">:</span> <span class="JJ">//livingarchitecture-h2020.eu/</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">Morton</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Timothy</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="NNS">Hyperobjects</span> <span class=":">:</span> <span class="NN">philosophy</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">ecology</span> <span class="IN">after</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">end</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">world</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Minneapolis</span> <span class=":">:</span> <span class="NNP">University</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNP">Minnesota</span> <span class="NNP">Press</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CD">2014</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNS">Serres</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Michael</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Genesis</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Ann</span> <span class="NNP">Arbor</span> <span class=":">:</span> <span class="NNP">Univ</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNP">Michigan</span> <span class="NNP">Press</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CD">1996</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">Glossary</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Animal</span> <span class="NN">machine</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="NNP">Bête</span> <span class="NN">machine</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">philosophical</span> <span class="NN">notion</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="NNP">Descartes</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="VBD">implied</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">fundamental</span> <span class="NN">difference</span> <span class="IN">between</span> <span class="NNS">animals</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">humans</span> <span class="(">(</span> <span class="NN">cf</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">L'homme</span> <span class="NNP">Machine</span> <span class=")">)</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="RB">Now</span> <span class="DT">this</span> <span class="NN">theory</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="RB">strongly</span> <span class="VBN">challenged</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Componentization</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">process</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="VBG">atomizing</span> <span class="(">(</span> <span class="VBG">breaking</span> <span class="RP">down</span> <span class=")">)</span> <span class="NNS">resources</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="JJ">separate</span> <span class="JJ">reusable</span> <span class="NNS">packages</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="MD">can</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="RB">easily</span> <span class="VBN">recombined</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">Componentization</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="RBS">most</span> <span class="JJ">important</span> <span class="NN">feature</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="(">(</span> <span class="JJ">open</span> <span class=")">)</span> <span class="NN">knowledge</span> <span class="NN">development</span> <span class="RB">as</span> <span class="RB">well</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">one</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">at</span> <span class="JJ">present</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJS">least</span> <span class="JJ">advanced</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Ecopoiesis</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">artificial</span> <span class="NN">creation</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">sustainable</span> <span class="NN">ecosystem</span> <span class="IN">on</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">lifeless</span> <span class="NN">planet</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Ectoplasm</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">supernatural</span> <span class="JJ">viscous</span> <span class="NN">substance</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="RB">supposedly</span> <span class="VBZ">exudes</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">body</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">medium</span> <span class="IN">during</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">spiritualistic</span> <span class="NN">trance</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBZ">forms</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">material</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">manifestation</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">spirits</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Hyperbody</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">living</span> <span class="NN">system</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">exceeds</span> <span class="JJ">conventional</span> <span class="NNS">boundaries</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">definitions</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">existence</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">For</span> <span class="NN">example</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">slime</span> <span class="NN">mould</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="JJ">plasmodial</span> <span class="NN">form</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">looks</span> <span class="IN">like</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">membranous</span> <span class="NN">slug</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">hyperbody</span> <span class=":">;</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="VBN">formed</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">merging</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">many</span> <span class="JJ">individual</span> <span class="NNS">cells</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">form</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">single</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBD">coordinated</span> <span class="JJ">giant</span> <span class="NN">cell</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Hypercomplexity</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="JJ">organizational</span> <span class="NN">condition</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="VBN">founded</span> <span class="IN">on</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">principles</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">complexity</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="JJ">new</span> <span class="NNS">levels</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">order</span> <span class="NN">arise</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="NNS">interactions</span> <span class="IN">between</span> <span class="NNS">components</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">but</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="VBZ">exceeds</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">classical</span> <span class="NN">understanding</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">complex</span> <span class="NNS">systems</span> <span class="IN">through</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NN">scale</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">heterogeneity</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">distribution</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">capacity</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">transform</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NNS">surroundings</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="NNP">Hyperobjects</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="NNS">entities</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">such</span> <span class="JJ">vast</span> <span class="JJ">temporal</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">spatial</span> <span class="NNS">dimensions</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="PRP">they</span> <span class="MD">can</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="VBN">perceived</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NN">entirety</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">defeat</span> <span class="JJ">traditional</span> <span class="NNS">ideas</span> <span class="IN">about</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">discreteness</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">certainty</span> <span class="VBN">associated</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="JJ">individual</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Katabatic</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="NNS">flows</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="JJ">wind</span> <span class="NNS">currents</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Microbial</span> <span class="NNP">Fuel</span> <span class="NNP">Cell</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="RB">metabolically</span> <span class="VBN">powered</span> <span class="NN">apparatus</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="IN">under</span> <span class="JJ">anaerobic</span> <span class="NNS">conditions</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">converts</span> <span class="JJ">organic</span> <span class="NN">matter</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="NN">electricity</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">fresh</span> <span class="NN">water</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">oxygen</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Photobioreactor</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">system</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">uses</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">ability</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">micro-organisms</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">convert</span> <span class="JJ">light</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">carbon</span> <span class="NN">dioxide</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="NN">biomass</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">like</span> <span class="NNS">sugars</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">alcohol</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">cellulose</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="NNP">Scrying</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">b</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="VBG">reading</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">future</span> <span class="IN">against</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">present</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="VBG">using</span> <span class="JJ">unstable</span> <span class="NNS">images</span> <span class="VBN">produced</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="JJ">reflective</span> <span class="NNS">surfaces</span> <span class=".">.</span>
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