Grace Taking Form Response

In Grace Taking Form: Mareys Movement Machines,
the author, Erin Manning, talks about Etienne-Jules Marey; a man who dedicated
his life to the inventing of machines that would measure the imperceptible (something
that can’t be seen but is actually there.)

In my opinion, Marey was a very intelligent man. To even think about something like the
imperceptible comes from intelligence.
Then to spend most of his life inventing machines to graph the
imperceptible, starting with taking a writing machine and making it graph the
invisible movements of pulse rhythms and the bloods flow. He constantly tested the human body’s
senses. He distrusted the senses,
considering them to only be capable of sensing actual environments.

“Marey’s
machines produced margins of indeterminacy that incited new processes to take form.
Machines were created for experimentation
even as experiments created new machines.”

As I stated earlier, Marey was a very
intelligent man. But at the same time,
during his lifetime, he might’ve been considered a little crazy. Someone like myself who just lives life by
the day and accepts everything as it is doesn’t know how to take in all these
theories and information. The fact that
Marey thought about this kind of stuff is putting my brain into a pretzel and
confusing me. I only hope to one day be
able to think like this and put forth as much effort into answers as he did.