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<h1>A Liquid Manifesto</h1> <p>1. <span class="NNP">Liquid</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="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$">its</span> <span class="NN">potential</span> <span class="VBP">have</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="RB">yet</span> <span class="VBN">existed</span> <span class="IN">until</span> <span class="RB">now</span>. <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="NN">hypercomplexity</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">hyperobject-ness</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">liquid</span> <span class="NNS">terrains</span> <span class="VBZ">exceeds</span> <span class="PRP$">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="RB">Indeed</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>. </p>
<p>2. <span class="NNP">Liquid</span> <span class="NN">life</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">worldview</span>. <span class="DT">A</span> <span class="NN">phantasmagoria</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">effects</span>>, <span class="NN">disobedient</span> <span class="NNS">substances</span>, <span class="JJ">evasive</span> <span class="NNS">strategies</span>, <span class="NNS">dalliances</span>, <span class="NNS">skirmishes</span>, <span class="NNS">flirtations</span>, <span class="NNS">addictions</span>, <span class="JJ">quantum</span> <span class="NN">phenomena</span>, <span class="JJ">unexpected</span> <span class="NNS">twists</span>, <span class="JJ">sudden</span> <span class="NNS">turns</span>, <span class="JJ">furtive</span> <span class="NNS">exchanges</span>, <span class="RB">sly</span> <span class="NNS">manoeuvres</span>, <span class="IN">blind</span> <span class="NNS">alleys</span>, <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">exuberant</span> <span class="NNS">digressions</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="NN">substance</span>, <span class="NN">method</span>, <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="NN">technology</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="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="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="NNS">beings</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="NNS">ambiguities</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>.</p>
<p>3. <span class="NNP">Liquid</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="FW">metabolic</span> <span class="PRP$">weather</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="CC">or</span> <span class="NN">hyperbody</span> - <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">permeates</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">atmosphere</span>, <span class="JJ">liquid</span> <span class="NNS">environments</span>, <span class="NNS">soils</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNP">Earth's</span> <span class="NN">crust</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="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="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="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">ecopoiesis</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="JJ">lifelike</span> <span class="NNS">events</span> - <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">even</span> <span class="NN">life</span> <span class="PRP">itself</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="NN">density</span> <span class="NNS">currents</span>, <span class="JJ">katabatic</span> <span class="NNS">flows</span>, <span class="NNS">whirlwinds</span>, <span class="NN">dust</span> <span class="NNS">clouds</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="JJ">earthy</span>, <span class="JJ">liquid</span>, <span class="JJ">gaseous</span>) <span class="NNS">terrains</span>. </p>
<p>4. <span class="NNP">Liquid</span> <span class="NN">life</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="JJ">immortal</span>. <span class="VBG">Arising</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="PRP$">our</span> <span class="JJ">unique</span> <span class="JJ">planetary</span> <span class="NNS">conditions</span>, <span class="PRP$">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="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="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>.
<p>5. <span class="NNP">Liquid</span> <span class="NN">life</span> <span class="VBZ">exceeds</span> <span class="JJ">rhetoric</span>. <span class="PRP$">Its</span> <span class="NNS">concepts</span> <span class="MD">can</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="VBN">embodied</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">experimentally</span> <span class="VBD">tested</span> <span class="VBG">using</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">trans-disciplinary</span> <span class="NN">approach</span>, <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="VBZ">draws</span> <span class="IN">upon</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">range</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">conceptual</span> <span class="NNS">lenses</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">techniques</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">involve</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">liquid</span> <span class="NN">realm</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="JJ">own</span> <span class="JJ">‘</span> <span class="NN">voice</span> <span class="NNS">’</span>. <span class="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="IN">like</span> <span class="NNP">Bütschli</span> <span class="NNS">droplets</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="DT">These</span> <span class="NNS">agents</span> <span class="VBP">exceed</span> <span class="NN">rhetoric</span>, <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="PRP">they</span> <span class="VBP">possess</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="JJ">own</span> <span class="NN">agency</span>, <span class="NNS">semiotics</span>, <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">choreographic</span> <span class="NNS">impulses</span>, <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="VBP">allow</span> <span class="PRP">us</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="NN">value</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VB">engage</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="NN">discourse</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="PRP">them</span> <span class="IN">on</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NNS">terms</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>.
<p>6. <span class="NNP">Liquid</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="PRP$">Its</span> ‘<span class="NN">thinking</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="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="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="NN">food</span> <span class="NNS">sources</span>, <span class="NN">waste</span> <span class="NNS">materials</span>, <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">energy</span> <span class="NNS">fields</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="IN">like</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">brain</span>.
<p>7. <span class="NNP">Liquid</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="NNS">non-bodies</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>.
<p>8. <span class="JJ">Liquid</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="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$">their</span> <span class="NN">behaviour</span>, <span class="PRP">they</span> <span class="MD">can</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="VB">predict</span> <span class="PRP">them</span>. <span class="PRP">They</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="JJ">tangible</span> <span class="NNS">expressions</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">nonlinear</span> <span class="NN">material</span> <span class="NNS">systems</span>, <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="VBP">exist</span> <span class="IN">outside</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">current</span> <span class="NNS">frames</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">reference</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="PRP$">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="NNS">Aspects</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NN">existence</span> <span class="NN">stray</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">unconventional</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">liminal</span> <span class="NN">realms</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">auras</span>, <span class="NN">quantum</span> <span class="NNS">physics</span>, <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">ectoplasms</span>. <span class="IN">In</span> <span class="DT">these</span> <span class="NNS">realms</span> <span class="PRP">they</span> <span class="MD">can</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="VBN">appreciated</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="JJ">objective</span> <span class="NN">measurement</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">invite</span> <span class="JJ">subjective</span> <span class="NN">engagement</span>, <span class="IN">like</span> <span class="JJ">poetic</span> <span class="NNS">trysts</span>. <span class="PRP$">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="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="VB">adapt</span>, <span class="NN">self-repair</span>, <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VB">empathize</span>.
<p>9.<span class="NNP">Liquid</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="JJ">pluri-pontent</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="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="IN">While</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNP">Bête</span> <span class="NNP">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="JJ">liquid</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class="VBP">resist</span> <span class="DT">these</span> <span class="NNS">tropes</span>.
<p>10. <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="NN">error</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="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="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="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>.
<p>11. <span class="NNP">Liquid</span> <span class="VBZ">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="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="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="NN">cirrus</span>, <span class="NN">soil</span>, <span class="NN">embryo</span>, <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="NN">biofilm</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="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="RB">Indeed</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="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$">our</span> <span class="VBG">being</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">world</span>, <span class="PRP">they</span> <span class="VBP">neglect</span> <span class="JJ">specific</span> <span class="NNS">details</span>, <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="VBP">‘</span> <span class="VBG">bring</span> <span class="NN">forth</span> <span class="VBD">’</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">materiality</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">environment</span>.
<p>12. <span class="NNP">Liquid</span> <span class="NNS">bodies</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="JJ">political</span> <span class="NNS">agents</span>. <span class="PRP">They</span> <span class="VBP">re-define</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">boundaries</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">conditions</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="NN">existence</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">context</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">dynamic</span>, <span class="JJ">unruly</span> <span class="NNS">environments</span>. <span class="PRP">They</span> <span class="VBP">propose</span> <span class="JJ">alternative</span> <span class="NNS">modes</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">living</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="RB">radically</span> <span class="VBN">transformed</span>, <span class="JJ">monstrous</span>, <span class="NN">coherent</span>, <span class="JJ">raw</span> - <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">selectively</span> <span class="VBN">permeated</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="JJ">nurturing</span> <span class="NNS">media</span>.
<p>13. <span class="NNP">Liquid</span> <span class="VBZ">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="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="VBG">being</span> <span class="JJ">alive</span>'.
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