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The Essence of Peopling

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Sarah Perry is a contributing editor of Ribbonfarm. Nouns for human beings – “people” or “person” – conjure in the mind a snapshot of the surface appearance of h…

Highlights Tour This post is part of the highlights tour, a series of historically significant ribbonfarm posts Nouns for human beings - "people" or "person" - conjure in the mind a snapshot of the surface appearance of humans. Using nouns like "people" subtly encourages thinking about people as frozen in time, doing nothing in particular. "People" is an anchor for thinking about human bodies separate from their environment, from the buildings and streets and farms and parks that they build and use to go about their business. Discuss with vgr_zirp → I prefer to think about "peopling" - the pro

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