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How does global shipping deliver thermal inequality?

There is, too, a connection between the lungs and the weather: the supposedly transformative properties of breathing free air—that which throws off the mantle of slavery—and the transformative properties of being “free” to breathe fresh air. These discourses run through+

We may define a machine as an artificial construct, a work of man, whose essential function depends on mechanisms. A mechanism is a configuration of solids in motion such that the motion does not abolish the configuration...

Just as then, today, I am stilled by your presence,
sea, but think myself no longer worthy of the solemn warning that you breathe. You were first to tell me that the tiny ferment of my heart was simply an impulse of yours; that in my depth of being there was your perilous law.
Eugenio Móntale

An Empire's Junk-
Historians in Diving Suits Explore the Sea's Depths
1951

"In a Popular Soviet-era joke: a listener calls up ‘Armenian Radio’ with a question: ‘Is it possible’ he askes, ‘to foretell the future?’ Answer: Yes, no problem. We know exactly what the future will be. Our problem is with the past: that keeps changing."
 From the House of the Dead – Tony Judt

"In essence, the question is whether, when considering the living being, we should treat it as a system of laws or as an organization of properties, whether we should speak of the laws of life or of an order of life."
Canguilhem- The Normal and the Pathological

"But if science is the work of a humanity rooted in life before being enlightened by knowledge, if science is a fact in the world at the same time as it is a vision of the world, then it maintains a permanent and obligatory relation with perception."
Canguilhem- The Living and Its Milieu