But if there is no original, no point, no body, no beginning of beginnings from which it all started, then womb, too, is already a repetition, a becoming, an unfolding. Womb and water; water and womb. Watery life gestating possibilities for other watery life yet-to-come, for life that might-not-have-been. Repetition 10: Water/Milieu Deleuze reminds us, not take place in the open air” (1994: 118). “Evolution,” “does As researcher Matthew Fletcher notes, "The marine environment is a realm of biological and chemical diversity, and marine organisms... are a rich source of intriguing and unusual molecules with the potential to become powerful drugs" (BBC, 2005). Musing on hermaphroditic fish, Roughgarden wonders why it is that oceanic environments, unlike life on land, that seem to be so accommodating—and even facilitative of—diverse sexuality (31). What repeats? An exterior milieu, now folded inside. Not only the sea, but a congeries of bodies, of species, each the evolutionary gestational milieu for an other. We are all watery bodies, constantly selecting, reinventing, repeating one another, from precipitation to primordial soup. Repetition 11: Oikos The anti-cancer drugs derived from sea squirt compounds inaugurate flows of power between ascidian life, specific bodies in pain, and multinational pharmaceutical companies. To whose advantage are sea squirt bodies being commandeered? is Greek for and becomes the prefix that is common to both “dwelling” “eco” ecology (the logic of dwelling) and economy (the management of dwelling)” (Chen,
But if there is no original, no point, no body, no beginning of beginnings from which it all started, then womb, too, is already a repetition, a becoming, an unfolding. Womb and water; water and womb. Watery life gestating possibilities for other watery life yet-to-come, for life that might-not-have-been. Repetition 10: Water/Milieu “Evolution,” Deleuze reminds us, “does not take place in the open air” (1994: 118). As researcher Matthew Fletcher notes, "The marine environment is a realm of biological and chemical diversity, and marine organisms... are a rich source of intriguing and unusual molecules with the potential to become powerful drugs" (BBC, 2005). Musing on hermaphroditic fish, Roughgarden wonders why it is that oceanic environments, unlike life on land, that seem to be so accommodating—and even facilitative of—diverse sexuality (31). What repeats? An exterior milieu, now folded inside. Not only the sea, but a congeries of bodies, of species, each the evolutionary gestational milieu for an other. We are all watery bodies, constantly selecting, reinventing, repeating one another, from precipitation to primordial soup. Repetition 11: Oikos The anti-cancer drugs derived from sea squirt compounds inaugurate flows of power between ascidian life, specific bodies in pain, and multinational pharmaceutical companies. To whose advantage are sea squirt bodies being commandeered? is Greek for “dwelling” and becomes the prefix “eco” that is common to both ecology (the logic of dwelling) and economy (the management of dwelling)” (Chen,
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