ATTUNING TO THE CHEMOSPHERE: Domestic Formaldehyde, Bodily Reasoning, and the Chemical Sublime
ATTUNING TO THE CHEMOSPHERE: Domestic Formaldehyde, Bodily Reasoning, and the Chemical Sublime
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调节化学圈：家用甲醛、身体推理和化学崇高
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2015
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Nicholas Shapiro
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Nicholas Shapiro
长期的国内化学品暴露在漫长的时间线上以缓慢的速度展开。在这篇文章中，我认为身体和毒物之间的这种微观接触最容易被更少命名和更广泛的感官练习感受到。对传统上不敏感的有毒物质暴露的恐惧是通过持续关注几乎察觉不到的躯体功能和氛围的变化而产生的。轻微的生化印象，乍看起来只是毫无意义或令人费解，但在接触过的人体内积累起来，并将他们重新定向到空气的分子成分和产生此类化学物质的国内基础设施。通过表达这些微小的腐蚀性事件，受污染房屋的居民可以积累身体和大气在时间和空间上的微小变化，这一过程我称之为“化学升华”，它将轻微的虚弱遭遇提升为事件，引发伦理思考和潜在的干预。化学崇高是一种晚期的工业经验，它颠覆了启蒙时代但仍占主导地位的崇高概念。在权威的和受质疑的身体、同伴物种和人类之间，这篇文章提出的问题是：弥散的感官实践以什么方式产生对化学世界的知识、关注和参与？
Chronic domestic chemical exposures unfold over protracted timelines and with low velocity. In this article I argue that such microscopic encounters between bodies and toxicants are most readily sensed by less nameable and more diffuse sensory practices. The apprehension of conventionally insensible toxic exposures is informed by sustained attention to barely perceptible alterations of somatic function and atmosphere. Slight biochemical impressions, which at first appear simply meaningless or puzzling, accumulate in the bodies of the exposed and reorient them to the molecular constituents of the air and the domestic infrastructure from which such chemicals emanate. Through the articulation of these small corrosive happenings, residents of contaminated homes can accumulate minute changes to body and atmosphere across time and space in a process I call the “chemical sublime,” which elevates minor enfeebling encounters into events that stir ethical consideration and potential intervention. The chemical sublime is a late industrial experience that inverts an Enlightenment-era, yet still dominant, conception of the sublime. Across authoritative and questioned bodies, companion species and humans, this essay asks: in what ways do diffuse sensory practices generate knowledge of, attention to, and engagements with the chemical world?