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Beuys

After re-reading the Joseph Beuys excerpts, a few things caught my attention. First of all, the contrasting word choices within each paragraph of the "Energy Generation as Social Sculpture" made the text even more meaningful. For example, the author talks about the two responses to the "oil price shock." On one hand, people "scrambled" and on the other hand, "it asserted pressure to relax."  Similarly, the reading describes Josephs Beuys' work as liberating, comparing it to most other industry experts who were trying to capture.

Additionally, I am specifically interested in the use of thermal energy in his works as a means of transformation, specifically because he claims that thermal energy saved his life after his plane crash. I am curious to know if this incident *plane crash* was a sort of transformation in his own life.

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