Rivers
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I was just reading this one, it's great
Here's some good river content for you.
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
Rivers as sites adapting Bourdieu
Social and natural history of the river Trent
Social and natural history of the river Trent
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sus
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I actually did read some stuff about NLP but then I got distracted by Kripal's Esalen
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You stupid fucking idiot. You think an American Studies major who specialized in Civil War battle history, specifically, the evolution of strategy on the Western front through Grant and Sherman, doesn't know about the shifting paths of the Mississippi? I literally wrote my undergraduate thesis using its riparian drift as a central metaphor.
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If one were to ask, what is the Mississippi River, or what constitutes the Mississippi River — with its twenty-three hundred miles of snaking southward current, its origins in Northern American tributaries and a massive Canadian drainage basin — one runs quickly into problems. There are the general issues of taxonomical ambiguity: At what point does a stream or creek become a river? At which point does the Gulf of Mexico transition to the Delta, and at what point does the Dela become a river? Then there are issues of definitional and linguistic vagueness: Do we consider “the” river to be all the water within a given, continuous set of banks? Or to include the the riverbed and riverbanks as an amalgamate unit? What then of flooding or groundwater? At what points does flooding and erosion create new banks? Does continuity matter? That is, if the flood zone is continuous with the main body of water, is it still the Mississippi? Do horseshoe lakes — arising when certain twists and turns of meandering rivers are cut off from the main current over time — present a complication? Finally, there are questions of change and flux in the spirit of the Ship of Theseus: Is the present Mississippi the same river which existed only a few months ago, even though all of its constituent water has exited into the Gulf and been replaced? Would it be the same Mississippi in a hundred-thousand years, if geologic change moves its location to an entirely new longitude?
WashYourHands
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luka
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always being born and always dying. both events happening simultaneously and constantly. the spring. the surrender to the sea.
the miracle birth. surrendering individual identity to that larger body. death. merging with that corporate identity.
you also have the river as life-journey. passage through space. passage from innocence to experience. the spring, the crystal stream, uncontaminated, skipping, laughing, and gradually accumlating sediment, weary, dark, waste, guilt, turbid, polluted
this gives you two basic models of time in one.
you've also got the rivers mode of preserving the past in contrast to the earths model. in the soil and rock time is layered in orderly strata. you dig down and the deeper you go the further back in time you travel. the river jumbles all time together. roman coin with cola can.
the miracle birth. surrendering individual identity to that larger body. death. merging with that corporate identity.
you also have the river as life-journey. passage through space. passage from innocence to experience. the spring, the crystal stream, uncontaminated, skipping, laughing, and gradually accumlating sediment, weary, dark, waste, guilt, turbid, polluted
this gives you two basic models of time in one.
you've also got the rivers mode of preserving the past in contrast to the earths model. in the soil and rock time is layered in orderly strata. you dig down and the deeper you go the further back in time you travel. the river jumbles all time together. roman coin with cola can.