I like the fact that "acidic" can be as literal as the nitric acid in Orgo lab to literary criticism. I'm not entirely sure how you're approaching this topic, but two acidic things that are coming to mind are lemons - and other citrus fruits that have a vibrant cultural history - and the vagina, whose acidity is supposed to kill off sperm.
I'm having a harder time thinking of things that aren't physically acidic, but I hope this comment helped.
An interesting bridge from the physical then might be through the greek theory of humourism. yellow bile is supposed to be an acidic internal fluid that manifests as a personality that is hot and temperamental.
I think you could do some great stuff with sociological analysis of the 7 floors of the sci-li that fall under the acidic part of the pH scale, on which its architecture is based. That's the first 7 floors, right? Ooh, I just checked, it goes to -1 acid, too, so you can get the basement.
There's that thing in some country where spurned men throw acid on women's faces, right?
The Alien in Alien has acidic blood, rots through space ships.
I don't know if acidic is thrown around much as a descriptor, except maybe of particularly grating senses of humor. Gilbert Gottfried, maybe.
Commodities, fetishes, souvenirs, relics, rubbish. What theories help us think about things? In this course we will read Victorian travelers on West African "fetish," Michael Taussig on his imagined cocaine museum, Susan Stewart on longing and souvenirs, Freud on shiny noses, Marx on tables, Annette Weiner on the similarities between gift and commodity exchange, Mary Douglas on dirt, D.W. Winnicott on string, and Arjun Appadurai on the idea of the social lives of things. The singularization of things, the ways in which history and memory are stored in real and imagined objects, the commodification of the human body, the animation of the inanimate, utopian recycling, gleaning, found objects as art and craft: we will consider a broad range of theoretical issues in our readings and in projects that put them to quirky use.
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I like the fact that "acidic" can be as literal as the nitric acid in Orgo lab to literary criticism. I'm not entirely sure how you're approaching this topic, but two acidic things that are coming to mind are lemons - and other citrus fruits that have a vibrant cultural history - and the vagina, whose acidity is supposed to kill off sperm.
I'm having a harder time thinking of things that aren't physically acidic, but I hope this comment helped.
Nupur
An interesting bridge from the physical then might be through the greek theory of humourism. yellow bile is supposed to be an acidic internal fluid that manifests as a personality that is hot and temperamental.
--Evan
I think you could do some great stuff with sociological analysis of the 7 floors of the sci-li that fall under the acidic part of the pH scale, on which its architecture is based. That's the first 7 floors, right? Ooh, I just checked, it goes to -1 acid, too, so you can get the basement.
There's that thing in some country where spurned men throw acid on women's faces, right?
The Alien in Alien has acidic blood, rots through space ships.
I don't know if acidic is thrown around much as a descriptor, except maybe of particularly grating senses of humor. Gilbert Gottfried, maybe.
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