Sections V and VI have no corresponding audio because Prof. Joyce delivered an abbreviated version of this lecture. Again The mediums of exchange for the skin are light, air, and water. We examine them in order to see ourselves as who we are.
Water is the figure of the body as a medium of exchange.
There is the formless place where the world is made. The space of our mortality is the singularity of water, which turns by turns from solid to liquid to air. We ourselves likewise mark and mean the repeated touch of surface to surface within one surface, cyclical and symbolic, which enacts the perception of flesh. Beyond next before us once again we ourselves discover the current flow of electronic text within a desert of silicon. Our selves and our cells argue as much.