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Semi-Permeable Beings Reckoning with Trans-Corporeality and Capitalism
by Tessa Stapp In ninth grade biology, we learn that the cell has a semipermeable membrane that allows nutrients to pass through it from the surrounding environment. Stepping back and considering ourselves as the cell — as we too are affected by the nutrients and chemicals in our environment — is to believe in our own trans-corporeality. Stacy Alaimo, a professor of the environmental humanities, coined the term “trans-corporeality” to highlight the ways in which human bodies are inseparable from the natural world they inhabit. In her book “Bodily Natures: Science, EnFall 2020 / Perennial 44
