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Catttt Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
"living matter"
Can any one understand what the following description wants to say? Is "living matter" water or our body? what does "and any trickery can be experienced as an intrusion into our own bodies, as if by association" mean?
"We form sensuous relationships with living matter, its substance suggests moistness, palpability and sentience, like our own substance, and any trickery can be experienced as an intrusion into our own bodies, as if by association."
Reference: https://books.google.com/books?id=iiE3RsvK248C&pg=PA145&lpg=PA145&dq="We+form+sensuous+relationships+with+living+matter"&source=bl&ots=Cu2-jiHoyd&sig=2EqRHNPSbMYZghxm9jAAVsT8x6E&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMI4emCzteRyAIVQzgaCh2OMwh2#v=onepage&q=%22We%20form%20sensuous%20relationships%20with%20living%20matter%22&f=false
"We form sensuous relationships with living matter, its substance suggests moistness, palpability and sentience, like our own substance, and any trickery can be experienced as an intrusion into our own bodies, as if by association."
Reference: https://books.google.com/books?id=iiE3RsvK248C&pg=PA145&lpg=PA145&dq="We+form+sensuous+relationships+with+living+matter"&source=bl&ots=Cu2-jiHoyd&sig=2EqRHNPSbMYZghxm9jAAVsT8x6E&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMI4emCzteRyAIVQzgaCh2OMwh2#v=onepage&q=%22We%20form%20sensuous%20relationships%20with%20living%20matter%22&f=false
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Dear Red Apple, I had a look at the original text and I can see it is about artistic appreciation. The language is very abstract and I probably don't have enough knowledge of art to pick up the meaning accurately. Sometimes, there are debates as to this kind of language, with some people saying that it can be vague to the point of meaninglessness, and others who can make sense of it.
- Dear Red Apple, I had a look at the original text and I can see it is about artistic appreciation.
- The language is very abstract and I probably don't have enough knowledge of art to pick up the meaning accurately.
- Sometimes, there are debates as to this kind of language, with some people saying that it can be vague to the point of meaninglessness, and others who can make sense of it.
- I think "living matter" has its ordinary meaning of all organic matter - plant and animal life, as opposed to materials like plastic or metal.
- I didn't understand what the author meant by "trickery", but her subsequent example of the artist who cuts his own skin (compare with "intrusion into our own bodies") may be an example of this trickery.
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Dear Red Apple,
I had a look at the original text and I can see it is about artistic appreciation. The language is very abstract and I probably don't have enough knowledge of art to pick up the meaning accurately. Sometimes, there are debates as to this kind of language, with some people saying that it can be vague to the point of meaninglessness, and others who can make sense of it.
I had a look at the original text and I can see it is about artistic appreciation. The language is very abstract and I probably don't have enough knowledge of art to pick up the meaning accurately. Sometimes, there are debates as to this kind of language, with some people saying that it can be vague to the point of meaninglessness, and others who can make sense of it.
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