Touch as the Ur-Sense: From Presence to Poesy
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“Now the touch only is common to all animals.” Agrippa
The very notion of sentience, with its root in feeling, cannot be understood without some reference to sensation. And sensation itself has at its bare core a “something” we feel. The response to that feeling is the mark of life: “quickening” upon touch is how we distinguish the animate from the inanimate. … read more »
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