CoSEP
COLLECTIVE for SOCIO-SPATIAL
& ENVIRONMENTAL PRAXIS
UC DAVIS
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Established in Dec 2023, CoSEP undertakes transdisciplinary, research-driven projects to address the socio-spatial and political nature of designing and governing the built environment to facilitate the fullness of life. CoSEP's projects lie at the intersection of design, technology, governance, and social justice. We are committed to praxis, or the reflective manner of combining theory and practice to achieve and sustain just futures. CoSEP is housed at the University of California, Davis, on the land of the home of the Patwin people.
© Akshita Sivakumar 2023 - 20259. Trumbull Stickney
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From The Soul of Time, 1904
Time’s a circumference
Whereof the segment of our station seems
A long straight line from nothing into naught.
Therefore we say “progress,” “infinity” —
Dull words whose object
Hangs in the air of error and delights
Our boyish minds a hunt for butterflies.
For aspiration studies not the sky
But looks for stars
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From I Used to Think, 1905
- I used to think
- The mind essential in the body, even
- As stood the body essential in the mind:
- Two inseparable things, by nature equal
- And similar, and in creation’s song
- Halving the total scale: it is not so.
- Unlike and cross like driftwood sticks they come
- Churned in the giddy trough: a chunk of pine,
- A slab of rosewood: mangled each on each
- With knocks and friction, or in deadly pain
- Sheathing each other’s splinters: till at last
- Without all stuff or shape they’re jetted up
- Where in the bluish moisture rot whate’er
- Was vomited in horror from the sea.