Micro-Landscapes of the Anthropocene

Responding to 'Intra-acting with water'

This chapter was riveting and transported me back to my high school science class. The idea that water itself has no independent agency is fascinating given it is a reckoning force capable of destroying environments and lives. We as humans have had an effect on it through climate change. It itself is merely a collection of atoms.

This chapter also resulted in my consideration of the way the human body never actually touches anything. Rather, electrons repel other electrons. Nothing touches us unless it punctures our body. And yet, as this chapter points out, we are subject to water's 'viscosity', 'sediment', 'temperature' and 'volume'. How can both be possible at once? This idea of intra-action conveys the close relationship between these two bodies. We are separate but affected together.

- Victoria Katsinas (z5364193)

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