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dualism
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du·al·ism (d-lzm)
n.
1. The theory that blood cells have two origins, from the lymphatic system and from the bone marrow.
2. The view in psychology that the mind and body function separately, without interchange.


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The diptych's second panel depicts a tall, narrow grid of boxes, the middle columns inscribed with terms suggesting intractable dualisms of the ineffable and empirical--AURA versus MACHINE, OBSESSED versus ELECTRIC--and the outer columns all paradoxically declare 100%.
Their thrusting, outsize visions of historical progress and transcendence were silently subverted from within by unresolved dualisms from conventional separate spheres notions, which they uncritically replicated within their works.
Morrison also critiques in Paradise normative Christianity for constructing dualisms that disconnect its practitioners from each other, the world they live in, and their bodies.
 
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