Clay thoughts

Meandering hands

Meratus Dayak notion of bulu gumi, which literally means 'the body hair of the earth' (Tsing 2005.) It is all the living things, in the water, in the air, and on the surface of the earth.It is all of those things:they are the body of the earth. p543 Anthropologists Are Talking About the Anthropocene

'the Greek concept of 'choros'. For Plato who spelled it choro, it was an enclosed space, like a jug, from which everything wells up. And it was identified by him as a kind of female principle' Anthropologists Are Talking About the Anthropocene

'But then he still goes on to describe it as a kind of feminized vessel, in which women are reduced to jugs that give birth to everything. Plato thus saw chora as a sphere, and enclosed Euclidean spatial vessel, out of which everything emerges.'
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