contronym… —when the source is the sink it is all about the flow

because we are animals we teach ourselves to make distinctions definite, like we don't flow but we do

This floated by me on social media today, and so today, again, a reflection and a reprise.

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I am fascinated by them as they can uncover the tension between ….movement — that we animals assume, as we step out of the flow into our bodies, embodied or worlded,… and — that which we would as animals discern, define, intend, mean.

But all is flux, and we are left with movement, minus notice and intention, a spirit that whispers we are not the flow to which we shall return.

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A list of posts in which I use contronyms as re-framing device:

1. Cormac Orthography, more or less 28 June 2023

2. Slash-and-burn is a category killer, just watch me blur a cleaving to/apart 5 July 2023 (main one I guess)

3. Joint attention 101 – mind blown 27 September 2023

4. A wonderful straightedge of a book, Lorraine Daston's Rules: A Short History of What We Live By 11 November 2023