Walking Is An Acting That Always Unfolds Within A Certain Landscape. [Anthropologist] Tim Ingold Has

“Walking is an acting that always unfolds within a certain landscape. [Anthropologist] Tim Ingold has used the notion of ‘taskscape’ to denote pragmatic uses of terrain. Whilst walking, we come to intersect with a variety of taskscapes … When somebody walks, they melt into a taskscape not entirely of their own design. Mind is inherently ecological. It is enacted within a certain ecology, and is actually inseparable from its environment. Mind is the sum of intelligent enactments … walking may be approached in an object-oriented manner. Each form of behavior composes an enactment that meshes with a certain ecology, what has [been] called a ‘behavioral field,’ Mind is the inherently relational enactment of set of behavioral disposition which are always already enmeshed with a field. When these dispositions enter ‘fields of sense,’ mind and walking become independent objects in their own right.

To walk is to establish manifold connections with multiplicities. The impulse to walk corresponds with a deeply rooted impulse to lose ourselves within a landscape, and ecology of openness. At any given moment, we walk a thin line between picking out a certain aspect, a specific site of concentrated desire or completely losing our sense of self. There is a gap between linguistic, theoretical representation, and actual feeling. No atomistic, one-piece notion will do when confronting the phenomenon of walking. Voluntary mobility is something that cannot be rationalized or traced back to rational reflection … The manifold, humming world we encounter never forms a complete whole. Neither perception nor its ecology from a coherent, holistic structure. Rather, both are dissected into an infinity of spatio-temporal world-slices. Practice, including the practice of walking, is a partial revelation, a becoming-alive that breaks into our interiority like a bolt of lightning that strikes down unsuspecting bathers. On other occasions, practice is more akin to the spreading of some as yet undefined sensation, filling our bodies with a certain atmosphere.”

Adam Lovasz, from “Walking as Intelligent Enactment: A New Realist Approach,” Open Philosophy (vol. 2, no. 1, January 2019)

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“The mirror was often used as a symbol of the vanity of woman. The moralizing, however, was mostly hypocritical. You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, you put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting Vanity, thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure. The real function of the mirror was otherwise. It was to make the woman connive in treating herself as, first and foremost, a sight.”

— John Berger - Ways of Seeing

“We should not be haunted by the specter of being automated out of work. We should be excited by that. But the reason we’re not excited by it is because we live in a society where if you don’t have a job, you are left to die. And that is, at its core, our problem.” - AOC

“I am often struck by the obvious fact that the other is impenetrable, intractable, not to be found; I cannot open up the other, trace back the other’s origins, solve the riddle. Where does the other come from? Who is the other? I wear myself out, I shall never know. “I can’t get to know you” means “I shall never know what you really think of me.” I cannot decipher you because I do not know how you decipher me. […] It is not true that the more you love, the better you understand; all that the action of love obtains from me is merely this wisdom: that the other is not to be known; his opacity is not the screen around a secret, but instead, a kind of evidence in which the game of reality and appearance is done away with. I am then seized with that exaltation of loving someone unknown, someone who will remain so forever: a mystic impulse: I know what I do not know.”

— Roland Barthes, from A Lover’s Discourse, “The Unknowable”

anyone else ever daydream for 6 hours straight and then after ur just like nah let’s scrap that and do it all again but slightly to the left