“Walking affirms, suspects, tries out, transgresses, respects, etc., the trajectories it ‘speaks.’All the modalities sing a part in this chorus, changing from step to step, stepping in through proportions, sequences, and intensities which vary according to the time, the path taken and the walker.”
Certeau, Michel de. The Practice of Everyday Life. Translated by Steven Rendall. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. p. 99.
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“He isn’t aware himself that he feels something odd about you. You follow his eyes with yours and move a step to the right. Your feet are now planted firmly on the floor. This effectively puts your friend in a line between you and the man, cutting him off from view.”
Kaprow, Allan, and Jeff Kelley. “Participation Performance.” Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1993. pp. 189-90.
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“The absurd situation: the established democracy still provides the only legitimate framework for change and must therefore be defended against all attempts on the Right and the Center to restrict this framework, but at the same time, preservation of the established democracy preserves the status quo and the containment of change. Another aspect of the same ambiguity: radical change depends on a mass basis, but every step in the struggle for radical change isolates the opposition from the masses and provokes intensified repression: mobilization of institutionalized violence against the opposition, thus further diminishing the prospects for radical change.”
Marcuse, Herbert. An Essay on Liberation. Boston, MA: Beacon, 1969. p. 49.
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“And if it is true that the phatic function, which is an effort to ensure communication, is already characteristic of the language of talking birds, just as it constitutes the ‘first verbal function acquired by children,’ it is not surprising that it also gambols, goes on all fours, dances, and walks about, with a light or heavy step, like a series of ‘hellos’ in an echoing labyrinth, anterior or parallel to informative speech.
The modalities of pedestrian enunciation which a plane representation on a map brings out could be analyzed.”
Certeau, Michel de. The Practice of Everyday Life. Translated by Steven Rendall. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. p. 99.
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“We can imagine, without straining credulity too far, that as they looked around their little corner of the universe, stretching for some tens of thousands of light-years in many directions, they might have concluded that while soups were common, life was extremely rare; that many places had the potential for life but in not one of them had the vital first step been taken—the spontaneous occurrence of the chemical mechanism needed for natural selection.”
Crick, Francis. Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature. New York: Touchstone, 1982. pp. 119-120.
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“If planets exist, at least a few will probably have a favorable environment for the production of a good soup—a mixture of simple organic compounds in water. It is the next step which is at present so mysterious: the formation from the soup of a primitive, chemical, self-reproducing system.
Even if this did happen we do not know how likely it is for the long process of evolution to culminate in a higher civilization, nor exactly how much time this might take, nor whether such creatures would really explore the universe nor how far they would succeed in traveling.”
Crick, Francis. Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature. New York: Touchstone, 1982. p. 15.
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“But it is hard to find examples of this at the level where approximations connect theory with reality, and that is where the generic-specific account must work if it is to ensure that the fundamental laws are true in the real world. Generally at this level approximations take us away from theory and each step away from theory moves closer towards the truth. I illustrate with two examples from the joint paper with Jon Nordby.”
Cartwright, Nancy. How the Laws of Physics Lie. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2010.
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Oxford University Press
“He would wait until winter passed and the spring thaw set in, and he would rise one morning before dawn and he would step out the door. He would choose a direction and he would begin to walk. He would walk as far from Shadbagh as his feet would take him.”
Hosseini, Khaled. And the Mountains Echoed. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. p. 49.
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