… ‘It matters what matters we use to think other matters with’… ‘It matters what relations relate relations’…*
A relation is a connection. It is a channel along which a story can be communicated (related) in order to connect to an other’s story, another relation.
Blood is the way it has always been. A tongue in the dark, something thick. Blood is the unseen duty that is destiny and faith. The inside warm is outside cold when pricked. Blood is reason for everything unreasonable.
DNA is now what will be will be. The code in lights. The key, or history in a perfected pattern of unquestionable proof. A lab coat has replaced the cloak with the idea of the truth. There is the cell we can all be freed from by spitting an image in a bottle of answers for everything.
And yet
The way rain falls, or tears dance says something is coming in our water, we are always wet. Relentlessly contingent, our body expands beyond skin and time as a river reaching, never set.
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* Donna Harraway. ‘Staying With the Trouble’. p12, p35
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