Seamstress mannequin courtesy The Institute of Cultural Inquiry
…just as clothing, jewellery and love transfigure the biological needs from which they arise, in the same way within the cultural world the historical a priori is constant only for a given phase and provided that the balance of forces allows the same forms to remain.
-M. Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception
The Body as Object and Mechanistic Physiology (excerpt)
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