embodiment

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• Mar 13 The Route Back Toni Morrison, The Site of Memory (in Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir, ed. William Zinsser) You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable...
• Mar 10 The Art Coefficient Marcel Duchamp, The Creative Act In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjec...
• Feb 20 Before Shaping M.C. Richards, Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person Centering: that act which precedes all others on the potter's wheel. The bringing of the clay into a...
• Feb 3 The Semblance of Truth Plato, Phaedrus The story goes that Theuth was the inventor of many arts, and he went to the great king Thamus and s...
• Jan 15 Resistant Surfaces Matthew Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft The use of tools requires a certain posture toward the world: the user must be attentive to the resi...