“The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.” StillsFeelingsLightMightWould BeSpaceImagineAirAtheismEasierEmptyPositive AtheismResistanceFlightImagine ThatDoveEmpty SpaceCleaving Book:Kant Source: Kant
“He that can swim needs not despair to fly; to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is to swim in a subtler. We are only to proportion our power of resistance to the different density of matter through which we are to pass. You will be necessarily upborne by the air if you can renew any impulse upon it faster than the air can recede from the pressure.” IfsNeedsDifferentMatterAirDespairPressureResistanceFasterImpulseProportionAviationSwimPredictionsFluidDensity Book:The history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia, a tale Source: The history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia, a tale
“They are, in a sense, two sides of the same coin: women are, on the one hand, subjects of an extremely real and abject (as Julia Kristeva put it) body and denigrated sexuality; on the other, the proliferation of images, and their digitalisation produces more and more abstract and air-brushed representations of impossible female bodies. Both indicate, certainly, a "lack of progress." But, one hopes, discussions and resistance are emerging in response.” TwoRealBodyHandsSidesProgressImpossibleAirSubjectsProduceFemaleResponseSexualityResistanceDiscussionAbstractRepresentationCoinsEmergingTwo SidesJuliaProliferationFemale Body Author:Laura Mulvey