Why not the mobility of less viscous liquids or even gas states?
The gothicity of matter: “Matter is not mute and stolid, but rather clamorous and active. In its viscosity, in its oozing mobility, in its unexpected, incessant animation, [protoplasm testifies] to the horrific potentiality of a sheerly physical world” (Hurley, Gothic Body, 33).pic.twitter.com/TRJml6R47A
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Hurley is particularly interested here with the make-up of the human body with a chaos of smaller organisms. The anxiety of the fin-de-siècle Gothic is that even the human body can be reduced to a base matter of slime.
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