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100 1  Armstrong, Rachel,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       nb2009015355|eauthor. 
245 10 Liquid Life|bOn Non-Linear Materiality. 
264  1 Brooklyn, NY :|bpunctum books,|c2019. 
264  3 Baltimore, Md. :|bProject MUSE, |c2021. 
264  4 |c©2019. 
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520    If we lived in a liquid world, the concept of a "machine" 
       would make no sense. Liquid life is metaphor and apparatus
       that discusses the consequences of thinking, working, and 
       living through liquids. It is an irreducible, paradoxical,
       parallel, planetary-scale material condition, unevenly 
       distributed spatially, but temporally continuous. It is 
       what remains when logical explanations can no longer 
       account for the experiences that we recognize as part of 
       "being alive."Liquid Life references a third-millennial 
       understanding of matter that seeks to restore the agency 
       of the liquid soul for an ecological era, which has been 
       banished by reductionist, "brute" materialist discourses 
       and mechanical models of life. Offering an alternative 
       worldview of the living realm through a "new materialist" 
       and "liquid" study of matter, Armstrong conjures forth 
       examples of creatures that do not obey mechanistic 
       concepts like predictability, efficiency, and rationality.
       With the advent of molecular science, an increasingly 
       persuasive ontology of liquid technologies can be 
       identified. Through the lens of lifelike dynamic droplets,
       the agency for these systems exists at the interfaces 
       between different fields of matter/energy that respond to 
       highly local effects, with no need for a central 
       organizing system.Liquid Life seeks an alternative 
       partnership between humanity and the natural world. It 
       provokes a re-invention of the languages of the living 
       realm to open up alternative spaces for exploration, 
       including contributor Rolf Hughes' "angelology" of 
       language, which explores the transformative invocations of
       prose poetry, and Simone Ferracina's graphical notations 
       that help shape our concepts of metabolism, upcycling, and
       designing with fluids. A conceptual and practical toolset 
       for thinking and designing, liquid life reunites us with 
       the irreducible "soul substance" of living things, which 
       will neither be simply "solved," nor go away. 
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650  7 Molecular biology.|2bicssc 
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