Golf Ball (Object Lessons)

we identify ourselves by the objects we cast into the void.

boundary between our outward exploration of the golf ball as a material object and our inward exploration of the golf ball as a phenomenon, a mode of experience.

full comprehension of the thing also means seeing it within the social and economic systems that generate it, locating it within webs of things and ideas.

trade and, in the longer term, the irrevocable destruction of Southeast Asian ecosystems:

How does a golf ball take flight and change from a repository of potential energy to a bolt of kinetic energy—a missile?

what seems inaccessible: the

The dissenting judge argued that the essence of a golf ball rests not in its material form but rather in its name and the nonmaterial qualities the name conveys:

see the world as the ball sees it.

contemporary course designers have to consider environmental problems