/lit/ - Literature

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>The proliferation of human comfort has an steep environmental cost that is occluded from immediate experience, but we should not think of humanity as conquerors expanding our realm into the natural world. Ergonomics is a means to non-human ends. It is technology that better binds tools to our anatomy, it compresses change in cycles of production for ever-increasing yields at lower rates of energy expenditure. Exploding economic growth vivisects your pelvis and delivers personal support and comfort at scaling prices. Low back ailments are treated by exponentially excessive pharmacology. The spine bears a hefty amount of economic activity. The environment is refashioned to afford the human body to afford efficient work, to refashion the environment to afford efficient work. Anatomy is a task to be decoded and distributed among objects, flesh is form factor. Muscle atrophy and inflexibility are already included in the cost.

>Squatting is no different than cartography. Remapping forgotten territory. One is most aware of the body when experiencing pain and discomfort. Tight connective tissue and poor neuromuscular awareness are logistical hurdles, productive limits. Delayed onset muscle soreness reorients thought back to its base material. The barbell is a tool for surveying bodily limits. It maps the contours of the musculoskeletal system, it takes stock of the resources provided and improves strength by manipulating volume and intensity. The discomfort brought about by minor bouts of physical activity is often enough to deter a novice lifter from continuing with exercise. Or the novice’s attention is captured by other matters. Human cognition has taken flight from the body to direct its energies to loftier goals. And while it was away, something else has taken roost.