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"The 'environment,' as we now apprehend it, runs right through us in endless waves, and if we were to watch ourselves via some ideal microscopic time-lapse video, we would see water, air, food, microbes, toxins entering our bodies as we shed, excrete, and exhale our processed materials back out."
—Harold Fromm, "The 'Environment' Is Us"
”Dwelling in a landscape of perpetual risk, where even the most benign-seeming substances— bread, water, a sofa— may harbor danger, the subject within risk culture confronts not only a barrage of conflicting information and disinformation but the specter of a dangerous lack of information that should guide the most commonplace— yet potentially deadly— actions and choices.”
-- Alaimo, Stacy. “Material Memoirs.” Bodily Natures : Science, Environment, and the Material Self. Bloomington, IN, US: Indiana University Press, 2010. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 18 September 2016, 93.
Image: Rhonda Zwillinger, The Dispossessed: Living With Chemical Sensitivities. “Brucie.” [Source]
-CSY
Stacy Alaimo "Your Shell on Acid"
Author of Bodily Natures
A piece of meat activated by electric waves of desire, a text written by the unfolding of genetic encoding. Neither a sacralised inner sanctum, nor a pure socially shaped entity, the enfleshed Deleuzian subject is rather an ‘in-between’: it is a folding-in of external influences and a simultaneous unfolding outwards of affects. A mobile entity, an enfleshed sort of memory that repeats and is capable of lasting through sets of discontinuous variations, while remaining faithful to itself. The Deleuzian body is ultimately an embodied memory
-Rosi Braidotti
“The traffic in toxins, for example, may allow us to notice that carcinogenic chemicals are produced by some of the same companies that sell chemotherapy drugs. This may be a useful thing to notice, but not an easy thing to remedy. It is certainly difficult, in a world of simulacra and slick public relations campaigns, to shift our focus from image to substance.”
(18) Stacy Alaimo, Bodily Natures
