His audience was the vile bigots and sociopaths that
pullulate and thrive online.
Although being committed to explain development according to efficient causes, Harvey conceived that an agent was responsible for the advancement and progress of this process: "as soon as the egg, under the influence of the gentle warmth of the incubating hen, or of warmth derived from another source, begins to
pullulate, this spot forthwith dilates, and expands like the pupil of the eye, and from thence, as the grand centre of the egg, the latent plastic force breaks forth and germinates" (Harvey, 1847, p.
in philosophy from Harvard University, graduating at the top of her class, and who was the first woman of acknowledged African descent to receive a tenured philosophy professorship in this country, has extensively analyzed the ways in which Kantian metaphysics deals with anomalies, the ways the mind rationalizes stereotypes by refusing to synthesize inconvenient facts that eventually
pullulate into xenophobic distortions: racism, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia, etc.
what Mandeville writes in "A vindication of the book": "The short-sighted vulgar, in the chain of causes, seldom can see farther than one link; but those who can enlarge their view, and will give themselves leisure of gazing on the prospects of concatenated events, may in a hundred places see good spring up and
pullulate from evil, as naturally as chickens do from eggs.
What most repulses us is putrefaction; there is no greater human aversion, says Bataille, than that felt towards "those unstable, fetid and lukewarm substances where the eggs, germs and maggots swarm." One reason why putrefaction revolts is because I know that one day "this living world will
pullulate in my dead mouth." Death is not just the annihilation of being but this "shipwreck in the nauseous," the knowledge that in my own decomposition I will once again become "anonymous, infinite life, which stretches forth like the night, which is death." Death is never pure non-being, but it is ever-present in life as change and decomposition: "Death is that putrefaction, that stench ...
their flesh dries on their bones but still they
pullulate, copulate, and amass ...
41): Vota blando stimulat lenimine | pubes, que vix
pullulate in virgine | tenui lanugine (Her pubic hair, barely sprouting with fine down in her girlish state, rouses my desires with its sweet solace).