Annemarie Mol, "Eating in Theory" (Duke UP, 2021)
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How to Get Rid of Stuff in a Waste Water Treatment Facility
It's in slightly different but similar ways not very clear where the body ends and when it when something is my body. If you have a health problem and you're asked to give some urine because they want to diagnose you on stuff that is in your urine. You put your urine in a little bottle or a pot and your name goes on it. So then that particular ring is still you. And well people who have studied sewage systems more extensively have pointed out before that we also no longer feel responsible for what we flush out. It becomes invisible and it goes under the ground. The bacteria that die in that whole system get burned and then the ashes go into the building of roads so my body
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